Tuesday, February 28, 2017

Once Time’s ‘Person of the Year,’ an Ebola fighter dies in childbirth due to stigma of virus

Once Time’s ‘Person of the Year,’ an Ebola fighter dies in childbirth due to stigma of virus
As the chaos and tragedy of the Ebola outbreak engulfed parts of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea in 2014, a more insidious ill took root: distrust of all who had come in contact with the disease. The suspicion was certainly not without reason. Whole countries looked on as the disease erased entire family trees. Doctors […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2017/02/28/once-times-person-of-the-year-an-ebola-fighter-dies-in-childbirth-due-to-stigma-of-virus/

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