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Ebola's Not Over For Health Care's Volunteers

March 4, 2015 By Maryn Leave a Comment

EU Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection (CC) on Flickr

EU Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection (CC) on Flickr

You might have missed it, because we’re barely talking about it in the United States, but the African Ebola epidemic has still not died down: the World Health Organization identified 99 new cases in its most recent status report. And as long as the disease persists, the possibility exists that it could spread back out of that confined area to other countries. Which makes it a good time to consider several new reports of what happened to US health care workers involved in responding to Ebola, and how that experience still affects their lives.

Short version: Of two who contracted Ebola and survived, one remains ill and fears she was manipulated, and the other, though well, feels he was misrepresented and stigmatized. Both worry their experience will dissuade others from volunteering in turn. And a major new government report backs them up.

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Filed Under: Science, Science Blogs, Superbug Tagged With: Craig Spencer, Ebola, ethis, Kent Brantly, Nina Pham

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