"For tireless acts of courage and mercy, for buying the world time to boost its defenses, for risking, for persisting, for sacrificing and saving, the Ebola fighters are TIME's 2014 Person of the Year," the magazine's managing editor Nancy Gibbs said in an article.
The Ebola Fighters are TIME’s Person of the Year for 2014. http://t.co/0s4PQnYYeA #TIMEPOY pic.twitter.com/lnj4OLjMc1
— TIME.com (@TIME) 10 декабря 2014
Time magazine has been awarding the title of Person of the Year since 1927 to individuals, groups and symbolic figures, such as the American fighting-man, representing US troops involved in the Korean War in 1950, or the Protester, inspired by individuals that took part in movements around the world including the Arab Spring and the Occupy Movement in 2011. The title was even granted to the computer in 1982.
The WHO also estimated that 622 health workers fighting Ebola have been infected with the deadly disease. Some 346 of them were killed by the virus.
