Tulip Mazumdar

Sierra Leone's Ebola epidemic continues to claim lives

Ebola is leaving a new generation of orphans

January 16, 2015Health

More than 10,000 children are believed have been orphaned by the Ebola epidemic — and orphanages are struggling to cope with the load.

Health workers remove the body a woman who died from the Ebola virus in the Aberdeen district of Freetown, Sierra Leone, on October 14, 2014.

One story describes the oppressive Ebola ‘siege’ in Sierra Leone

October 17, 2014Health

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