Especially deadly outbreak of Ebola burned unseen in a remote part of Sierra Leone for several
weeks, giving public health experts a reality check.
It's also a perfect embodiment of the warning that they've been giving for months: that a single spark can set off a conflagration of disease and death. It happened in Kono,
World Health Organization workers heard rumors of deaths and traveled there to find scenes out of a horror movie. At least 87 people had died and been hastily buried,
often without the precautions needed to stop the corpses from infecting the living.
" said Winnie Romeril, a spokeswoman from WHO. "They had been working nonstop, trying to manage the large numbers of patients who came in."
"Everybody was at wit's end. They were just feeling defeated." A Single Spark Gives Ebola New Life
weeks, giving public health experts a reality check.
It's also a perfect embodiment of the warning that they've been giving for months: that a single spark can set off a conflagration of disease and death. It happened in Kono,
World Health Organization workers heard rumors of deaths and traveled there to find scenes out of a horror movie. At least 87 people had died and been hastily buried,
often without the precautions needed to stop the corpses from infecting the living.
" said Winnie Romeril, a spokeswoman from WHO. "They had been working nonstop, trying to manage the large numbers of patients who came in."
"Everybody was at wit's end. They were just feeling defeated." A Single Spark Gives Ebola New Life
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