Ebola fighter named TIME's 2014 person of the year dies in childbirth stat : dailysabah

She and her spouse were hired by medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres to work with Ebola patients since survivors could no longer contract the dangerous virus. "Ebola did not kill my wife, but rather childbirth" Harris said. "She was tested because the nurses on shift were told that she was an Ebola survivor and said she was Ebola negative. Salome Karwah Harris, 32, had become one of the country's prominent Ebola fighters after surviving the disease along with her husband in 2014. Salome's husband James Harris told Anadolu Agency on Monday: "Salome did what my mother did not do for me in life.




Feb. 28 (UPI) -- Salome Karwah Harris, a Liberian nurse named as one of Time's people of the year for her fight against Ebola, died after giving birth, her family announced. Time put Harris, 32, on the cover of its Person of the Year edition in 2014 to represent the healthcare workers who battled the Ebola epidemic that spread that year. She had a baby boy on Feb. 17, her fourth child, but had convulsions after she left the Monrovia hospital. News of her death spread through Monrovia and beyond. Ella Watson-Stryker, a Doctors Without Borders health promoter who worked with Harris, said, "To survive Ebola and then die in the larger yet silent epidemic of health system failure, I have no words."


Though she escaped the deadly disease years ago, the lasting stigma still surrounding Ebola may have cost Karwah her life, according to the magazine. Karwah used to joke that she had "super powers" because having overcome Ebola made her immune to it. Salome Karwah lost her mother, father, brother, aunts, uncles cousins and a niece amid the 2014 West African Ebola outbreak, TIME reported. Ebola vaccine 100% effective: study"It hurts like they are busting your head with an ax," Karah said of the disease in 2014. "If an Ebola patient is in his house, and his immediate relative cannot go to him, I can go to him.


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