Ebola sounds like something from science fiction, with its sudden arrival, terrifying contagiousness and shocking fatality rate. And that impression is only redoubled when you see the doctors and nurses struggling to combat it, clad head to toe in what look more like space suits than hospital scrubs.Surviving Ebola (26 September), a short film in the reliable Unreported World strand, took us to Sierra Leone. Reporter Shaunagh Connaire introduced us to doctors in protective suits, outreach workers, overworked gravediggers, and a couple who had contracted the disease. It was a sobering story of duty and stoicism in the face of a relentless killer.We started with a doctor, Sebastian Stein, moving the body of a nine-year-old boy from makeshift hospital to makeshift mortuary: the corpse was st
25 September 2014, The Tablet
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Surviving Ebola CHANNEL 4
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