Catholic aid workers, church leaders and medical personnel are on the front line in West Africa battling to control a disease that has already claimed more than 800 lives. But the ebola virus is doing more than killing people; it is spreading fear and suspicion and wiping out whole communities Sister Barbara Brillant FMM, dean of a nursing college in Liberia, lived through five years of violence as the neighbouring countries of Sierra Leone and Guinea endured civil wars,  takeovers and coups. What she is facing now is very different. “With war, you know to avoid the enemy,” she says. “You know to dodge this bullet and that bullet. With ebola, you just don’t know.”West Africa is suffering from the spread of a devastating disease most likely to infect a p