Ebola : Inside the Deadly Outbreak.
ABC News’ Dr. Richard Besser
travels into the hot zone – where thousands of Africans are dying of
Ebola, and doctors risk their own lives to save them. Interviews with
those on the front lines, and an American survivor, weave together an
incredible story
Ebola: Inside the Deadly Outbreak
Ebola nearly killed Nancy Writebol in July—and it also made her famous, which helped broadcast to the world that it needed to respond more aggressively to what had grown from a small outbreak into an out-of-control epidemic.
Writebol, a clinical nurse associate, became ill with the disease while working for the missionary group SIM in Monrovia. She and her husband David spoke with Science on 24 September about a topic that has yet to receive much attention: How do health care workers who are trained to protect themselves nevertheless become infected with the Ebola virus? The Writebols also discuss how the outbreak grew into an epidemic.
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