Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Survivors of Ebola face second 'disease': stigma

FOR STORY WEST AFRICA SURVIVING EBOLA - FILE-In this file photo taken on Monday, March 31, 2014, UNICEF health workers teach people about the Ebola virus and how to prevent infection, in Conakry, Guinea. The Ebola outbreak in West Africa has claimed some hundreds of lives, and is almost always fatal with horrific suffering including bursting blood vessels, there is no vaccine or known effective treatment, but it seems a handful of infected people have survived. However those who survive the horrors of the disease have to cope with being outcast by everybody, such is the fear people have of Ebola. (AP Photo/ Youssouf Bah, File) CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — The doctor has beaten the odds and survived Ebola, but he still has one more problem: The stigma carried by the deadly disease.








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