Family of doctor sick with Ebola call for prayers for his colleague

Dr. Kent Brantly (R) makes chlorine solution for disinfection at the case management center on the campus of ELWA Hospital in Monrovia, Liberia in this undated handout photograph courtesy of Samaritan's Purse. REUTERS/Samaritan's Purse/Handout via Reuters

ATLANTA (Reuters) - The family of an American doctor stricken with the deadly Ebola virus in Liberia and brought to the United States for treatment has called for prayers for a missionary who was infected alongside him and is to be flown home this week.

The pair were in West Africa as part of an emergency response to the worst outbreak on record of Ebola, a particularly deadly hemorrhagic virus, which has killed more than 700 people since February.