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Ebola survivors: their health struggles and how best to support them

Ebola survivors: their health struggles and how best to support them

WEST Africa’s Ebola outbreak between 2013 and 2016 was the most widespread in the history of the disease. By the end of the outbreak, more than 28,000 people were infected and 11,000 succumbed to the disease. Peter B James, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Southern Cross University Abdulai Jawo Bah, PhD candidate at Queen Margaret University and Lecturer at , University of Sierra Leone Amie Steel, Senior Research Fellow, University of Technology Sydney Jon Adams, Distinguished Professor of Public Health, University of Technology Sydney Jon Wardle, Professor of Public Health, Southern Cross University Despite the high number of deaths, the outbreak also…
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Why Ebola survivors like me can help fight COVID-19

Why Ebola survivors like me can help fight COVID-19

ANASTASIA MOLONEY AFTER losing his sister to Ebola and narrowly surviving the disease himself, health worker Sherry Bangura is on a mission to spread awareness about COVID-19 and stop it spreading., About one in three Ebola patients survived the outbreak which killed more than 11,000 people in West Africa between 2013 and 2016. Bangura, 32, from Sierra Leone, says survivors like him are in a unique position to educate others about their experience and the importance of hygiene and vaccines. As countries gear up to roll out COVID-19 vaccines, Bangura is on the frontlines -- one of millions of health…
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