TIME Magazine Names Ebola Fighters 'Person of the Year'

— -- TIME magazine today named those who fought against Ebola as its "Person of the Year."

The five covers show various doctors and nurses, including Dr. Kent Brantly, an American missionary who survived his bout with Ebola.

Editor Nancy Gibbs singled out Salome Karwah, a nurse's assistant for Doctors Without Borders who "stayed at the bedsides of patients, bathing and feeding them, even after losing both her parents — who ran a medical clinic — in a single week and surviving Ebola herself."

The Ebola outbreak in West Africa has infected more than 17,800, mainly in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone.