Ebola

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Samuel Aranda

Fieldset

Ebola

Ebola is a deadly disease caused by a highly infectious virus. The initial symptoms (fever, fatigue, headaches) are common, making it difficult to diagnose in the early stages.

Later symptoms include vomiting, diarrhoea, impaired liver and kidney function, and in some cases internal and external bleeding.

There is currently no cure for Ebola. Treatment is limited to supportive therapy – keeping patients hydrated, maintaining their oxygen status and treating any complicating infections.

Luis Encinas

Nurse

Chapter One: Back in Kishasa

As a new outbreak begins, MSF Ebola specialist Luis returns to the Democratic Republic of the Congo...

24 May 2018 / 1 minute read

Justin Healy

Vlog: Running an Ebola survivor clinic

"There is a frustration with what people have been through and what people have seen happen to them."

12 May 2016 / 1 minute read

Samantha Roper

Medical team leader

Fighting Ebola: The real heroes of West Africa

West Africa is just emerging from the most devastating outbreak of Ebola the world has ever witnessed.

10 Mar 2016 / 4 minute read

Benjamin Black

Obstetrician / Gynaecologist

F**k you, Ebola

Months of talking, over a year of reflecting, and finally on Wednesday 6 January we entered officially into Magburaka Government Hospital working alongside the Ministry of Health, immediately boost

05 Feb 2016 / 12 minute read

Nick Owen

Communications

A bittersweet end to Ebola

"On the spot where it's rumoured African American slaves threw off their shackles to found their own country, the people of Freetown had gathered on this sweltering November night to relinquish themselves from another oppressor."

25 Nov 2015 / 8 minute read

Alison Criado-Perez

Nurse

REACHING ZERO: Bringing the epidemic under control

Alison has been part of the team responding to the Ebola crisis in Sierra Leone

31 Mar 2015 / 5 minute read

Amie Subah

Mental health specialist

Fighting Stigma: "I was so desperate, I came really close to killing myself"

I contracted Ebola through midwifing a pregnant woman. Unfortunately, the woman was infected and she died of the virus as well as her baby...

13 Feb 2015 / 2 minute read

Sianne Beyan wearing Ebola personal protection equipment

Siannie Beyan

Mental health specialist

Fighting stigma: "It will take me time to forgive and forget"

I lost my relationship of 10 years because of Ebola...

04 Feb 2015 / 2 minute read

Alison Criado-Perez

Nurse

The Return of an Ebola Survivor

"There was a large group waiting to greet Mama Sesay as we drove up, and as she stepped from the land-cruiser clapping and cheering erupted."

28 Jan 2015 / 4 minute read

Jackson Naimah

Doctor's Assistant

Fighting Ebola, ending stigma

My wife and I live a lonely life. Our neighbors have barred their children from playing with our children - our home is a ‘no go zone’ for them.

21 Jan 2015 / 3 minute read

Alison Criado-Perez

Nurse

Too many deaths... and a bright ray of hope

Alison blogs from the Ebola crisis in Sierra Leone

06 Jan 2015 / 6 minute read

Fernando Calero

Communications

Princess

A few days ago I received an email from journalist who works for The New York Times; she had been in Monrovia in September and asked me to find some information that she needed to complete her repo

05 Jan 2015 / 4 minute read