Ian Crozier is an American physician who contracted

Ebola virus disease Ebola, also known as Ebola virus disease (EVD) and Ebola hemorrhagic fever (EHF), is a viral hemorrhagic fever in humans and other primates, caused by ebolaviruses. Symptoms typically start anywhere between two days and three weeks after infe ...

in September 2014, while working in West Africa. __TOC__

Early life

Crozier was born in in the

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n city of Fort Victoria. His family moved to the

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when he was ten years old. He attended

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, earning his M.D. in 1997, and also completed his training in internal medicine and infectious disease at Vanderbilt. Crozier later moved to Uganda to train doctors in

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in treating people with

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Ebola virus disease

Crozier volunteered with the

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at the Ebola Treatment Unit in

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beginning in August 2014. Crozier first began experiencing symptoms of Ebola on September 6. On September 9, he was evacuated by the WHO to

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, becoming the third American to be transported there to be treated for Ebola. He remained there for forty days—the longest stay of any ebola patient in the United States—before being released on October 19, 2014. His condition was considered to be worse than the other patients, and he was treated with

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and plasma from a nurse who had recovered from the disease. In December 2014, he revealed his identity publicly in an interview with ''

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''. He said the reason he wanted to speak out was to thank Emory University for the medical care he received while he was a patient there, and to draw attention to the then-ongoing outbreak. In May 2015, it was discovered that the Ebola virus could still be found in Crozier's eye despite the fact that it had not been detectable in his blood for months.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Crozier, Ian 21st-century American physicians Ebola survivors Living people Vanderbilt University School of Medicine alumni Year of birth missing (living people) Zimbabwean emigrants to the United States American expatriates in Sierra Leone