Experts hope the survivor’s antibodies will kick-start Mukpo's immune system. Brantly was on a road trip from Indiana to Texas when he received a call from the medical center telling him his blood type matched Mukpo’s. Within minutes, he stopped off at the Community Blood Center in Kansas City, Missouri, and his donation was flown to Omaha.
Brantly, who continues to work for Christian relief organization Samaritan's Purse, also donated blood to Ebola-stricken aid worker Dr. Rick Sacra. He subsequently recovered. Mukpo's father Dr. Mitchell Levy was touched by Brantly's intervention. "This act of kindness and generosity makes me believe in the goodness of humanity," he told NBC News.
Mukpo is being given an experimental drug called brincidofovir, which has never been used on Ebola patients. “We are in a brave new world here,” Dr. Angela Hewlett, associate medical director at the Nebraska Medical Center, told NBC News.