Time: Ebola fighters are person of the year

Time magazine, as is its yearly tradition, has named a person of the year, and this year it chose multiple persons: those who are helping to fight the spread of Ebola around the world.

Included in those honored is Dr. Kent Brantly, who did his residency at John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth. He contracted Ebola while serving as a missionary physician in West Africa and returned to the U.S. where he was cured after a long stay in a hospital. Also included were nurses Nina Pham and Amber Vinson who tended to Liberian Thomas Eric Duncan who was diagnosed with Ebola at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas. They too contracted the Ebola virus but were cured.

This story was originally published December 11, 2014 at 9:19 AM with the headline "Time: Ebola fighters are person of the year."