SURVIVING EBOLA

Beginning March 2014, the deadly Ebola epidemic killed over 11,000 people across West Africa, including 4,800 people in Liberia. 

These short video reports were recorded in Liberia in February 2015, as the once unrelenting Ebola epidemic began to wane. With the end of the deadly virus in sight, the country reflected, evaluating the conditions that had enabled Ebola to tear through the population and trying to make sense of how to move forward. 

Against this backdrop, Morris and Mathalene tell their stories of survival, contributing their experiences to the global narrative of the deadly epidemic. 

 

 

Narrated by Erica Hill, CNN correspondent