According to Times Live, Time Magazine has named five Ebola fighters as the Time Magazine’s 2014 people of the year.
Thousands of medical workers have been fighting to contain the deadliest Ebola outbreak in history, which has infected more than 17,000 people and killed more than 6,000 in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
According to the report, Time Africa bureau chief Aryn Baker said "The reporting was both heart wrenching and horrifying."
"But every time I wrote about rising death tolls, I wrote about extraordinary men and women who risked everything -from disease to distrust and even death - to stop Ebola from taking more lives," she concluded.
Times Live reports revealed that Time magazine’s covers feature five individual Ebola fighters.
Monrovia hospital director Jerry Brown, ambulance driver Foday Gallah and Doctors Without Borders volunteers Salome Karwah, Ella Watson and Dr Kent Brantly, who was the first American to contract the virus.
The European Union and the White House commended Times magazine’s action.
Also, EU Ebola coordinator Christos Stylianides said "2014 has been marked by the Ebola epidemic in West Africa and the ripple of fear it sent around the world.
But even more remarkable has been the response of doctors, nurses, epidemiologists, paramedics, soldiers and volunteers who flew in from around the world to save lives, putting their own lives at risk every day they go to work."
Time magazine annually profiles a person or group that has "for better or for worse done the most to influence the events of the year."
