Ebola's Deadly Symptom: Paying the Price of Courage In one of the deadliest Ebola outbreaks on record, a quiet crisis unfolds among health workers risking everything to combat the virus.
While headlines focus on 4,000 plus confirmed cases and 1,800 fatalities, few consider the daily struggles of those on the front lines. Wiza Bondele's story illustrates this problem.
As an unpaid health worker at Ituri province hospital, he faces peril in his role, disinfecting contaminated areas, checking visitors' temperatures, and enforcing handwashing protocols.