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Nigeria Declared Ebola-Free by WHO The World Health Organization declared Africa’s largest country by population free of Ebola on Monday, a sign of how swiftly the virus can be reined in using basic disease-containment measures.
How Ebola Can Kill You — Even When You Don’t Have Ebola: Most hospitals and clinics in Liberia are closed so people are dying of preventable complications.
The Ebola virus kills indiscriminately, but women in West Africa are particularly badly affected. Sandra Smiley meets some of the lucky ones who have beaten the odds to survive (via The Telegraph).
UK-trained Dr Stella Adadevoh's died to save Nigeria from Ebola
Ebola outbreak: The children orphaned by the virus – then rejected by surviving relatives over fear of infection
Health officials take the body temperature of an Ukrainian worker on the MV Pintail cargo ship as they check for signs of the Ebola virus at the Apapa Sea Port in Lagos, Nigeria.
Liberian girl and student nurse Fatu Kekula takes on Ebola â and wins - Features
James Ball: The Ebola outbreak is serious, but the nature of the epidemic is often misunderstood – and inappropriate measures suggested
Sierra Leone
Liberian health worker carries a baby suspected of having contracted Ebola from his family members
Liberia’s impassable roads are preventing effective diagnosis and treatment.
Sierra Leone's leading doctor Victor Willoughby dies of Ebola
MSF worker Mush Tiah is caring for baby Lansanna, who has lost 17 family members to Ebola.
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West African countries generally have a strong social network that supports children during times of hardship and need. But for many of the hundreds of children orphaned by Ebola in Sierra Leone, who sometimes witnessed their parents’ deaths, stress and trauma is compounded by social exclusion from their communities.
