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West Africa: Post-Ebola Syndrome - It's Not Over for Ebola Survivors
IRIN, 10 August 2015
West Africa's Ebola outbreak might be winding down, but the struggles facing survivors in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone are far from over. Read more »
Post-Ebola Syndrome - It's Not Over for Ebola Survivors
Beyond psycho-social problems related to stigma and post-traumatic stress disorder, more than half of survivors say they are suffering from debilitating joint pain, headaches, and fatigue, according to the World Health Organization.
Six-year-old Patrick Poopei, an Ebola survivor, just released from a Doctors Without Borders treatment unit, waves goodbye to the medical team as his father William, also an Ebola survivor, grins at him from the front seat of the car (file photo).
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