Monitoring press freedom and international affairs from Mid-Missouri Public Radio and the Missouri School of Journalism

Liberia after Ebola

10 January 2017
Health workers carry a body of a person that they suspected died from the Ebola virus at a new graveyard on the outskirts of Monrovia, Liberia, March 11, 2015. (AP Photo/Abbas Dulleh)

A year ago the World Health Organization declared the Ebola epidemic in Liberia over.

But though the immediate crisis may have passed, Liberia still faces huge challenges in recovering.
 
Two devastating civil wars in the last 30 years destroyed much of the West African nation's infrastructure, and it ranks as one of the poorest countries in the world.
 
At the start of the outbreak some hospitals lacked running water and the country had just 50 doctors.
 
On this edition of Global Journalist, a look at how Liberia is recovering from the epidemic and what aid groups and medical researchers are doing to head off the next outbreak.

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