Although some in Liberia are now referring to Ebola in the past-tense, the epidemic looks likely to continue past its ninth month. Laurie Garrett just returned from Sierra Leone and Liberia, and she appears on WBEZ's Worldview on November 25, 2014 to give an update on what the epidemic looks like now.
The Ebola epidemic in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea is now in its ninth month and it looks likely to continue. Some 5000 people have died of Ebola in these three countries. Other African nations, like Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo, have been declared Ebola free by the World Health Organization. Laurie Garrett, senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations, has just returned from a trip to Sierra Leone and Liberia. She’s put herself on a self-imposed quarantine and she joins us, via phone from quarantine, to give us an update on the state of the epidemic. (photo: Ebola health care workers carry the body of a middle aged man that they suspected of dying from the Ebola, on the outskirts of Monrovia, Liberia, Saturday, Nov. 8, 2014. (AP Photo/ Abbas Dulleh))