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Burying Ebola Victims in Liberia
MONROVIA, Liberia ? Sep 28, 2014, 3:39 PM ET
REPORTER'S NOTEBOOK By DR. RICHARD BESSER
RICHARD BESSER ?
Chief Health and Medical Editor
Dr. Richard Besser posted this photo to Twitter with the caption, "Burying an #ebola victim. At the unit in Bong County they've dug more graves than they have patients." Richard Besser/ABC News
Matthew Lincoln died last night. He was one of two patients to die at the Bong County Ebola Treatment Unit on Saturday.
When Lincoln died, I was embedded with a group of aid workers tracking down Ebola patients. We were on our way to the center with his 23-year-old wife, Garmai and their 11-month-old son, Freeman, both of whom are believed to be infected with Ebola. We picked up Garmai and Freeman in the small village of Mahwa, but instead of traveling directly to the clinic, we detoured to pick up another suspected Ebola patient. A four-hour trip stretched to six, and by the time we reached our destination, Matthew was dead.
There was no chance for his wife to say goodbye.
more...
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/burying-ebola-victims-liberia/story?id=25819311
MONROVIA, Liberia ? Sep 28, 2014, 3:39 PM ET
REPORTER'S NOTEBOOK By DR. RICHARD BESSER
RICHARD BESSER ?
Chief Health and Medical Editor
Dr. Richard Besser posted this photo to Twitter with the caption, "Burying an #ebola victim. At the unit in Bong County they've dug more graves than they have patients." Richard Besser/ABC News
Matthew Lincoln died last night. He was one of two patients to die at the Bong County Ebola Treatment Unit on Saturday.
When Lincoln died, I was embedded with a group of aid workers tracking down Ebola patients. We were on our way to the center with his 23-year-old wife, Garmai and their 11-month-old son, Freeman, both of whom are believed to be infected with Ebola. We picked up Garmai and Freeman in the small village of Mahwa, but instead of traveling directly to the clinic, we detoured to pick up another suspected Ebola patient. A four-hour trip stretched to six, and by the time we reached our destination, Matthew was dead.
There was no chance for his wife to say goodbye.
more...
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/burying-ebola-victims-liberia/story?id=25819311