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One of the only doctors at the second largest (of eight) hospitals in neighboring capital Monrovia, Liberia suffered and died of Ebola too. These doctors certainly are heros. http://allafrica.com/stories/201407021024.html

This video by SkyNews shows the wood-and-plastic rural clinic conditions for Ebola health workers. Urban settings would often also lack any form of air conditioning to limit body fluids. Having lived for several years in similar towns there, it cuts close: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYMOGDI9XkI

https://medium.com/matter/how-to-ignore-a-plague-14ea08694cc "Sweating profusely in the 90-degree heat....The next day, at the Holy Trinity Secondary School, I saw scores of high school kids playing soccer. Some had removed their white uniforms to avoid them getting dirty, and their bodies glistened. The longer they played, the more they sweated, and the more dangerous the game became for them. But they were either oblivious to the dangers of a virus that can kill nine in 10, often by internal bleeding and organ failure, or they did not care."



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