Latest stories on Dr. Sacra and Ebola: progress is remarkable

NBC News 9/12/14: Ebola Patient Dr. Rick Sacra Gets ‘Everything We Had’. Doctors treating the third U.S. Ebola patient, Dr. Rick Sacra, have given him every treatment they can think of, and say something seems to be working because he’s getting better every day.

LA Times 9/11/14: Ebola patient Rick Sacra gets transfusions from survivor Kent Brantly. Dr. Rick Sacra, an American missionary who contracted Ebola in Africa, has received blood plasma transfusions from Dr. Kent Brantly, a fellow missionary who has recovered from the disease, doctors involved in Sacra’s treatment confirmed Thursday.

Boston Globe 9/11/14: Progress of Mass. physician fighting Ebola called ‘remarkable’. Dr. Richard A. Sacra, the Massachusetts physician infected with Ebola while working at a hospital in Liberia, has taken major steps toward recovery, a doctor at the University of Nebraska Medical Center said Thursday. “His progress has been remarkable,” Dr. Angela Hewlett said at a news conference at the Omaha medical center, where Sacra has been treated since last week. Hewlett said that, given the progress that Sacra has made, “I would think a relapse would be less likely.”

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