‘A teenage girl bled to death over two days’: Ebola nurses describe life and death on the frontline

An Ebola health worker is decontaminated at a Médecins sans Frontières unit in Monrovia in Liberia.
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theguardian.com - by Bridget Mulrooney, Sue Ellen Kovack and Anine Kongelf - October 13, 2014

Bridget Mulrooney, 36
American nurse working for the International Medical Corps in Bong County, Liberia

I was working as a travel nurse at a children’s hospital in California when I got an email from International Medical Corps asking if I was interested in deploying to Liberia to help fight Ebola. I wanted to go immediately but I was locked into a contract at the time. The more I heard, the more excited I got.

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