What Life Is Like in a Country Haunted by Ebola

MONROVIA, Liberia—For weeks, I have been covering the outbreak of Ebola in Liberia

To see the community where I’ve been living for almost three years devastated by the deadly disease has been haunting

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My mind repeatedly wanders back to one particular moment in Saint Paul Bridge, a poor village of zinc houses, sandy roads and quaint gardens. Four policemen, wearing protective masks and holding riot shields, had sealed off the area around a house where a woman had recently died after contracting the virus. Normally, it was a crowded house, filled with people. But now everyone had fled except the woman's stepson and her granddaughter Hawa. When men in protective suits carried the woman's body out of the house, Hawa began crying, inconsolably. She stood alone with her grief Read more...

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