Family of doctor sick with Ebola call for prayers for his colleague

By Rich McKay ATLANTA (Reuters) - The family of an American doctor stricken with the deadly Ebola virus in Liberia and brought to the United States for treatment has called for prayers for a missionary who was infected alongside him and is to be flown home this week. The pair were in West Africa as part of an emergency response to the worst outbreak on record of Ebola, a particularly deadly hemorrhagic virus, which has killed more than 700 people since February. The doctor, Kent Brantly, was flown on Saturday to Atlanta, where he is being treated by infectious disease specialists in a special isolation ward at Emory University Hospital. A second U.S. aid worker who contracted Ebola with him, missionary Nancy Writebol, is expected to depart for the United States overnight on Monday, Liberia's government said.



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