TIME PERSON OF THE YEAR 2014 IS.......

Time Magazine has named Ebola fighters as their person of the year 2014

Time magazine has selected the Ebola fighters, who have fought to contain the deadliest Ebola outbreak in history as its 2014 Person of the year.

According to the Magazine, this title goes to all that have fought to contain the virus, especially to individuals and group.

On Wednesday, Time revealed multiple versions of the cover on Today – each highlighting a different Ebola fighter to represent the group. Among them are Dr. Kent Brantly, Dr. Jerry Brown, nurse aide and survivor Salome Karwash, MSF volunteer health promoter Ella Watson-Stryker, and ambulance team supervisor and survivor Foday Galla. Also, Ebola caregivers were selected over other influential newsmakers on Time’s shortlist and this includes Taylor Swift, the Ferguson protester and Vladimir Putin.

Some part of West Africa have been the major hit of this deadly virus and as at today, there has been more than 17, 000 Ebola cases in this outbreak leading to more than 6,000 deaths.





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