Time Magazine Names Ebola Fighters The Person Of The Year

Time Magazine has officially ruled on the number one spot for Person of the Year and it goes to the Ebola Fighters.

Ebola has plagued certain parts of Western Africa for decades now, but it was in 2014 when the disease spread and reached our shores.  Ebola was a pretty well known disease in the past but it became a household name, reaching countries it never had before such as Liberia, Spain, Sierra Leone, Germany and America. It quickly became an epidemic since the disease has no known cure. It is also hard to eliminate spreading since there aren't any symptoms for the first few weeks when a person comes into contact.

“I want to give my blood so a lot of people can be saved,” says Foday Gallah, an ambulance driver who survived infection. “I am going to fight Ebola with all of my might.”

Salome Karwah, a nursing assistant, stayed with her patients, helping them bathe and eat. She had lost both of her parents in a single week and survived Ebola herself. “It looked like God gave me a second chance to help others,” she says.

It takes a brave soul to be able to face death every day knowing that any minute, you can be the one infected. It is because of these men and women who sacrificed their safety, that we can breathe a sign of relief. So the Ebola fighters have been named TIME's 2014 Person of the Year and rightfully so. They deserve this award for their acts of courage, risking, persisting, and saving.