{"id":13803,"date":"2014-10-14T08:05:48","date_gmt":"2014-10-14T13:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/simchafisher\/?p=13803"},"modified":"2014-10-14T08:08:47","modified_gmt":"2014-10-14T13:08:47","slug":"power-in-the-blood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/simchafisher\/2014\/10\/14\/power-in-the-blood\/","title":{"rendered":"Power in the blood!"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Remember when Ann Coulter pronounced\u00a0missionary Dr.\u00a0Brantly a big jerky, inconsiderate showboater for\u00a0going into Africa to treat Rbola patients, like selfish, jerky showboaters tend to do with their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/simchafisher\/2014\/08\/06\/fix-bethlehem-first\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cChristian narcissism\u201d?<\/a>\u00a0 Remember how little good Brantly was doing, according to Coulter, with his thoughtless act of leaving his perfectly good\u00a0country and then coming back home?<\/p>\n<p>Well, guess whose blood is helping to heal\u00a0the\u00a0nurse who\u00a0selfishly contracted Ebola while caring for a dying man in Dallas?<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/morning-mix\/wp\/2014\/10\/14\/the-decades-old-treatment-that-may-save-a-young-dallas-nurse-infected-with-ebola\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"> Yarr, Dr. Brantly\u2019s blood.\u00a0Back in July, Brantly<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201creceived a unit of blood from a 14-year-old boy who had survived Ebola because of Dr. Brantly\u2019s care,\u201d the missive\u00a0<a style=\"color: #2e6d9d;\" href=\"http:\/\/demoss.com\/newsrooms\/sp\/news\/american-doctor-with-ebola-again-displays-heroism-gives-experimental-serum\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now months later, Brantly, who has since recovered from his battle with the virus, has passed on the favor.\u00a0A 26-year-old\u00a0Dallas nurse named Nina Pham, who contracted the illness\u00a0while treating the United State\u2019s first Ebola patient, has received Brantly\u2019s blood. It\u2019s\u00a0<a style=\"color: #2e6d9d;\" href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Health\/us-ebola-patient-serum-recovered-victim-fight-virus\/story?id=25435678\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">not the first time<\/a>\u00a0it has been used to treat Ebola patients. Recovered\u00a0Ebola victim\u00a0Richard Sacra got it, as well as U.S. journalist Ashoka Mukpo, who last night\u00a0<a style=\"color: #2e6d9d;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/nation\/nationnow\/la-na-nn-ashoka-mukpo-ebola-20141013-story.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">said<\/a>\u00a0he\u2019s on the mend.<\/p>\n<p>Injecting the blood of a patient like Brantly who has recovered from Ebola and developed certain antibodies is a decades-old, but promising\u00a0method of treatment that, academics and health officials agree, could be\u00a0one of the best means to fight Ebola. Called a convalescent serum, it might also\u00a0save Pham, an alum of Texas Christian University.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A physician\u00a0gives over his body to help the sick and dying, and through his blood, they are saved. I\u2019m just going to let that sit there for a minute. Aw heck, I\u2019ll sit here with Dolly Parton:<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dolly Parton - Power In The Blood\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/B1CV-HtsMvc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember when Ann Coulter pronounced\u00a0missionary Dr.\u00a0Brantly a big jerky, inconsiderate showboater for\u00a0going into Africa to treat Rbola patients, like selfish, jerky showboaters tend to do with their \u201cChristian narcissism\u201d?\u00a0 Remember how little good Brantly was doing, according to Coulter, with his thoughtless act of leaving his perfectly good\u00a0country and then coming back home? 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