New York — The somber face of a young man from Sierra Leone has become the emblem of Ebola's living survivors, suffering in silence without families, papers, or homes.
A photo of Jimmy Thoronka appeared this week in local British papers. An undeclared refugee, he went missing after competing in last summer's Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. The 20-year-old was a star sprinter but fell apart as Ebola took his uncle, then his adoptive mother and four siblings. He had already lost his birth parents in the country's civil war.
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