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Contagious as fear

Friday 12 December 2014

"Travelling to Sierra Leone to report on the Ebola crisis, I was expecting a country paralysed by the epidemic, full of people in rubber boots, gloves and masks – avoiding each other like the plague. And it was nothing like I had imagined," writes AFP video journalist Celine Clery, who travelled to the west African country, among the world's poorest, in November to find a capital still buzzing with life. "Everywhere we found a fighting spirit, looking for ways to move forward once the epidemic is over."

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The Ebola dance

Wednesday 19 November 2014

Health workers dance in front of a severely ill Ebola patient at a treatment center run by the Red Cross Society in Kenema, Sierra Leone, on November 15, 2014. "The scene lasted two minutes", said AFP reporters Ann Chaon and Céline Cléry, who witnessed it. "A way to distract the patients — and try to bring some relief to their sorrow and fear. A moment of grace in a world hungry for it, in these dark days of Ebola. And we, too, were grateful for it."

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