The 'Ebola Fighters' are named as TIME's Person of the Year 2014 for 'their exceptional courage, kindness and bravery'

Each year, the magazine names the 'person' who most influenced the news, for better or worse, throughout the year

TIME managing editor Nancy Gibbs made the announcement on the Today show Wednesday Dec 10,2014 and revealed five covers showing some of the fighters

Dr Kent Brantly, the U.S. doctor who contracted Ebola while treating patients in Liberia, said he was 'honored' to feature on one cover

In second place came 'the Ferguson Protesters' who have been demonstrating across the country following the death of Michael Brown

The covers also feature Foday Gallah, an ambulance driver who survived the infection, Médecins Sans Frontières nurse Salome Karwah and Dr Jerry Brown, a Liberian surgeon who turned his hospital's chapel into the country's first Ebola treatment center.