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What Happened Next: Ebola

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The Ebola outbreak in West Africa and the challenges of bringing the disease in control

In Sierra Leone, the Ebola outbreak in 2014-16 caught everyone, including the World Health Organisation, completely unprepared. Award-winning reporter Umaru Fofana talks to Tulip Mazumdar about his own experience of the outbreak; plus we hear from both local and western doctors and aid workers about the fight to bring the disease under control. Central to this was persuading grieving families – with the help of social scientists – to change their burial practices.

(Photo: Health workers carry a stretcher at the Kenama Ebola treatment centre run by the Red Cross, 2014. Credit: Francisco Leong/AFP/Getty Images)

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The stories of people caught up in the Japanese tsunami, the collapse of Rana Plaza, and the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.

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