Liberian Ebola Fighter, a TIME Person of the Year, Dies in Childbirth

[snookypookums]

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[QUOTE]The 2014 West African Ebola outbreak killed 11,310 people. Liberian nursing assistant Salome Karwah was not one of them. The disease that tore through her town in August of that year took her mother, her father, her brother, aunts, uncles, cousins and a niece. But by some miracle it left Karwah, her sister Josephine Manley and her fiancé James Harris still alive.

But just because Karwah escaped Ebola, it didn’t mean she was secure against the failures of Liberia’s broken medical system. She died on Feb. 21, 2017, from complications in childbirth and the lingering social stigma faced by many of Ebola’s survivors.
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[URL]http://time.com/4683873/ebola-fighter-time-person-of-the-year-salome-karwah/[/URL]

RIP, brave soul.

[Sprockethead]

Well that's a downer.

I'll have a shot of gin in your honor Salome.

[kylel999]

She lost all those family members to Ebola, holy shit

[Spacewolf]

Wow that's awful. She gave so much and when the time came nobody would do the same for her.

[sir whoopsalot]

[quote]Now known as Salome Harris after marrying her fiance, Harris had a healthy baby boy—her fourth child—who was delivered by C-section on Feb. 17. She went home a few days later, but went into convulsions and was rushed back to the hospital—only to have staff refuse to touch her because of her past Ebola illness (she was foaming at the mouth and they were afraid of the fluids).[/quote]

Fucking depressing.