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 becom ...
in September 2014, while working in West Africa.
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Early life
Crozier was born in
in the
Rhodesia
Rhodesia (, ), officially from 1970 the Republic of Rhodesia, was an unrecognised state in Southern Africa from 1965 to 1979, equivalent in territory to modern Zimbabwe. Rhodesia was the ''de facto'' successor state to the British colony of S ...
n city of
Fort Victoria.
[ His family moved to the ]United States
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when he was ten years old.[ He attended ]Vanderbilt University
Vanderbilt University (informally Vandy or VU) is a private research university in Nashville, Tennessee. Founded in 1873, it was named in honor of shipping and rail magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt, who provided the school its initial $1-million ...
, 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 Kampala in treating people with HIV
The human immunodeficiency viruses (HIV) are two species of ''Lentivirus'' (a subgroup of retrovirus) that infect humans. Over time, they cause acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), a condition in which progressive failure of the immune ...
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Ebola virus disease
Crozier volunteered with the World Health Organization
The World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for international public health. The WHO Constitution states its main objective as "the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of h ...
at the Ebola Treatment Unit in Kenema, Sierra Leone beginning in August 2014.[
Crozier first began experiencing symptoms of Ebola on September 6. On September 9, he was evacuated by the WHO to ]Emory University Hospital
Emory University Hospital is a 733-bed facility in Atlanta, Georgia, specializing in the care of acutely ill adults. Emory University Hospital is staffed exclusively by Emory University School of Medicine faculty who also are members of The Emor ...
in Atlanta
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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 renal dialysis and plasma from a nurse who had recovered from the disease. In December 2014, he revealed his identity publicly in an interview with ''The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid ...
''. 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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Ebola survivors
Living people
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Zimbabwean emigrants to the United States