It is possible to contract the deadly Ebola hemorrhagic fever and still survive it. There have been several individuals who have been fortunate to live to tell the tales of how they survived Ebola
Ashoka Mukpo
Ashoka Muko is a freelance journalist and cameraman who covered the Ebola outbreak in Liberial for NBC and other outlets. As he witnessed several families get destroyed by the illness, he least expected that he too would fall victim to Ebola. Here is his story.
"My own battle with Ebola began with a slight body ache on Oct. 1. For weeks, any small pain had made me uneasy, but I had chosen to trust the precautions that I was taking...
One night, I felt an unusual ache and stopped at my apartment for a quick check: I watched the thermometer tick upward and eventually stop at 101.3. With no other discernible symptoms, I knew that the most likely explanation for a fever that high was Ebola. Fear enveloped me.
Once I tested positive for the Ebola virus, I was admitted into the Doctors Without Borders facility in Monrovia, where around 150 Liberian Ebola patients were being treated....For four days, I lay on my mat in the large white tent, wondering if I would make it home."....read more
Salomé Karwah
Salomé Karwah lost both parents to the virus. Now the chance to care for sufferers has given meaning to her life again. Salomé believes she survived from ebola to help others with the disease.
Ashoka Mukpo
Ashoka Muko is a freelance journalist and cameraman who covered the Ebola outbreak in Liberial for NBC and other outlets. As he witnessed several families get destroyed by the illness, he least expected that he too would fall victim to Ebola. Here is his story.
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| Ashoka Mukpo, Source: online.wsj.com |
"My own battle with Ebola began with a slight body ache on Oct. 1. For weeks, any small pain had made me uneasy, but I had chosen to trust the precautions that I was taking...
One night, I felt an unusual ache and stopped at my apartment for a quick check: I watched the thermometer tick upward and eventually stop at 101.3. With no other discernible symptoms, I knew that the most likely explanation for a fever that high was Ebola. Fear enveloped me.
Once I tested positive for the Ebola virus, I was admitted into the Doctors Without Borders facility in Monrovia, where around 150 Liberian Ebola patients were being treated....For four days, I lay on my mat in the large white tent, wondering if I would make it home."....read more
Salomé Karwah
Salomé Karwah lost both parents to the virus. Now the chance to care for sufferers has given meaning to her life again. Salomé believes she survived from ebola to help others with the disease.
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| Salomé Karwah, Source: The Guardian |
"It all started with a severe headache and a fever. Then, later, I
began to vomit and I got diarrhoea. My father was ill and my mother too.
My niece, my fiancé and my sister had also all fallen sick. We all felt
helpless.
It was my uncle who first contracted the virus in our family. He contracted it from a woman he helped take to hospital. He got sick and called our father for help, and our father went to him to bring him to a hospital for treatment. A few days after our father came back, he too got sick. We all cared for him and got infected too. This is the way the virus works, person by person, cutting through families."...read more
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It was my uncle who first contracted the virus in our family. He contracted it from a woman he helped take to hospital. He got sick and called our father for help, and our father went to him to bring him to a hospital for treatment. A few days after our father came back, he too got sick. We all cared for him and got infected too. This is the way the virus works, person by person, cutting through families."...read more
Anonymous
"I tried to be positive - I was thinking about death, but deep inside I thought my time had not come yet and I would get over it. That's how I overcame the pain and the fear.
Doctors from the charity Medecins Sans Frontiers (MSF) were here to comfort me and give their moral support. I tried to stay positive although I was scared when I saw my relatives dying in front of me.
There was a moment when I thought I might die when I lost two of my uncles and their bodies were taken away.
On that night none of us could sleep - we thought we would never make it to the morning...read more
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Sources:
online.wsj.com
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