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A health worker checks the temperature of a man at a roadside medical checkpoint outside Ganta, Liberia.

How Liberians confronting Ebola manage to keep calm while Americans panic

October 20, 2014Health

New York Times Pentagon correspondent Helene Cooper was born in Liberia. She admits when she recently returned to West Africa to report on Ebola, she was scared. But Cooper says she found Liberians confronting the outbreak with an impressive calm.

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