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JUDY WOODRUFF (NewsHour): In West Africa, doctors are fighting the world’s most deadly Ebola outbreak with makeshift hospitals, a handful of vehicles and a few brave volunteer health workers. Meanwhile, terrified villagers and city-dwellers alike can only watch helplessly as their loved ones succumb to the disease.
Tonight’s episode of “Frontline” on PBS takes an intimate and harrowing look at all this on the ground in Sierra Leone. In the following scene, “Frontline” cameras travel with a group of health workers who go to remote villages, searching for Ebola’s victims.
NARRATOR: They’re heading to a village where Ebola has already killed an old man. Everyone they encounter, even those who look healthy, could be infectious.
The team used to wear protective clothing, but the suits terrified the villagers, who ran, hid and sometimes even attacked them. Manjo now relies on keeping his distance from everyone he meets.
MANJO: My name is Manjo, and this is Ishata (ph) from the World Health Organization.
NARRATOR: A young woman is clearly unwell.
MANJO: What’s wrong with you?
NARRATOR: Kadiatu Jusu (ph) is 25 years old, the mother of four children.
WOMAN: Do you have a fever?
WOMAN: Yes, I have temperature, diarrhea and I’m vomiting.
NARRATOR: Her husband, Fallah (ph), is a farmer. He’s 35.0 It was his father who died two weeks ago. Ishata Conteh (ph) can see Kadiatu is almost certainly infected.
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