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Sierra Leone
Freetown
In nurse Mamusu Kabi's (27) home. She lives together with her daughter and husband. She has worked for several months as a nurse at a ambulance team that retrieves Ebola infected patients. Many of those who work with Ebola, experience stigmatization in their neighborhoods. People fear that they are infected by Ebola. But Mamusu's neighborhoods treat her as a hero.
The local heros in Sierra Leone have been fighting the Ebola-virus for a year now. Since the outbreak of Ebola in the country in May 2014, more than 100 health workers and 11 of the country's doctors (out of 120 doctors) have died. A total of approximately 3.500 people have died because of the Ebola-virus. The number of cases has been falling steadly, and the daily life is about to return to normal, with fewer restrictions on trade, border-crossing and gatherings.