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# Emory's 'Sickest' Ebola Patient, Now in Recovery, Reveals Identity

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## Alexandra Sifferlin


Dec 8, 2014 2:17 AM UTC

by 

[Alexandra Sifferlin](https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/)


## Alexandra Sifferlin


Dec 8, 2014 2:17 AM UTC

A doctor who contracted Ebola while treating patients in Sierra Leone and was evacuated to the U.S. for care in September revealed his identity in a [report](http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/08/health/ebola-doctor-ian-crozier-return-from-the-edge-of-death-.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=photo-spot-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news) published Sunday.

Ian Crozier, who had been working with the World Health Organization in Kenema, told the New York _Times_ that he explicitly kept his identity a secret to protect his family. Crozier, 44, is now recovering in Phoenix and working through a physical-therapy program.

One specialist admitted in the report that Crozier was the “sickest” patient that Emory University Hospital in Atlanta has seen thus far. He weighed 220 lb. pre-Ebola, but lost 30\. The viral load in his blood was 100 times that of the facility’s other patients; he spent 12 days on a ventilator and was on dialysis for 24 days.

Crozier went public, he said, to thank Emory and bring awareness to the epidemic. At least 17,145 cases of Ebola have been [reported](http://www.who.int/csr/disease/ebola/situation-reports/en/) in the outbreak, including 6,070 deaths.

[Read more at _NYT_](http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/08/health/ebola-doctor-ian-crozier-return-from-the-edge-of-death-.html)

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