1. a) What is plasma?
b) How often can a person donate plasma?

2. Explain how plasma can help fight a virus and possibly fight the Ebola virus.

3. a) Who is Kent Brantly?
b) From whom did he receive plasma?

4. Who did Kent Brantly donate plasma to?

5. a) What other treatment did Dr. Brantly receive?
b) What actually cured Dr. Brantly?

6. Why didn’t Dr. Brantly donate blood to Liberian national Thomas Duncan?

7. What recommendation did the WHO make in September regarding blood therapies?

8. What hope does this article give you that even people in Liberia can be saved from Ebola?