Reuters, 21/10 16:10 CET
By Kemo Cham and Emma Farge
FREETOWN/DAKAR (Reuters) – A
poster in Sierra Leone’s crumbling coastal capital Freetown proclaims a
message from an Ebola survivor called Sulliaman: “I feel 100 percent
healthy!” Another beaming survivor Juliana says: “I am one of the safest
people to be around!”
Throughout the two-year Ebola epidemic, thousands of West
African survivors have been shunned by their communities, prompting
governments to sponsor messages stressing their complete recovery in a
bid to counter fear and paranoia.
But the case of Scottish nurse Pauline Cafferkey – the
first known Ebola survivor to have an apparently life-threatening
relapse – has revived concerns about the health of some 17,000 survivors
in Sierra Leone, neighbouring Guinea and Liberia.
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Source: Euronews
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