'Ebola is spreading before our eyes': A week in Devil Hole, Sierra Leone

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DEVIL HOLE, Sierra Leone—She is under the large tree at the north end of the village. Everyone knows it.



Lying there in the dirt, blood oozing from the corner of her mouth. Occasionally her hands reach out, fingers spreading in the dirt in response to the pain. The equatorial sun blazes down and the villagers can do nothing


We can do nothing


We are in Devil Hole, a poor village barely 40 minutes drive from the Sierra Leonian capital Freetown and Ebola is spreading before our eyes. Already, the virus has claimed the lives of at least 5,160 people and Sierra Leone has been hard hit Read more...


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