Ebola Teams sweep aside big names to become TIME magazine Person of the Year

TIME magazine has announced its Person of the Year and a US medical missionary who was stricken with Ebola has been named along with other health workers fighting the virus as Time Magazine's Person of the Year.
There were a number of contenders but Dr Kent Brantly and fellow caregivers pipped the Ferguson protesters, Apple chief executive Tim Cook, pop singer Taylor Swift and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell to the prize.
33-year-old Dr Brantly was brought back from Liberia to the US in August. The magazine also put on the cover another US health worker, 34-year-old Ella Watson-Stryker of New York, who has been helping fight the epidemic over the last year in West Africa. Along with them, three Liberians - a surgeon, an ambulance supervisor and an Ebola counsellor who lost both her parents to the disease - also made the cover.
Time editor Nancy Gibbs has heaped praised on the "tireless acts of courage" of health workers who have been battling a virus that has killed nearly 6,400 people. In her words – ‘the rest of the world can sleep at night because a group of men and women are willing to stand and fight.’
Of course, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Kurdish leader Massoud Barzani, and Jack Ma, founder of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, also made the eight-candidate shortlist.