The document summarizes TIME magazine's selection of "The Ebola Fighters" as the 2014 Person of the Year. It describes the heroic efforts of doctors, nurses, and caregivers working to fight the deadly Ebola virus during the 2014 outbreak in West Africa. It features portraits and stories of individuals on the front lines of the crisis, including Dr. Kent Brantly, Dr. Jerry Brown, nurse Salome Karwah, health promoter Ella Watson-Stryker, and ambulance supervisor Foday Galla.
4. Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, says the proverb, but rather the hero’s heart.
5. Featur ed on the covers: Ebola survivor Dr. K ent Brantly, Dr. Jerry Brown, nurse aide and survivor Salome Karwah, MSF
volunteer health promoter Ella Watson-Stryker, and ambulance team supervisor and survivor Foday Galla.
6. For decades, Ebola haunted rural African villages like some mythic
monster that every few years rose to demand a human sacrifice and
then returned to its cave. It reached the West only in nightmare form,
a Hollywood horror that makes eyes bleed and organs dissolve and
doctors despair because they have no cure.
But 2014 is the year an outbreak turned into an epidemic, powered
by the very progress that has paved roads and raised cities and
lifted millions out of poverty. This time it reached crowded slums in
Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone; it traveled to Nigeria and Mali, to
Spain, Germany and the U.S. It struck doctors and nurses in
unprecedented numbers, wiping out a public-health infrastructure
that was weak in the first place.
One August day in Liberia, six pregnant women lost their babies
when hospitals couldn’t admit them for complications. Anyone willing
to treat Ebola victims ran the risk of becoming one.
7. Ebola is a war, and a warning. The global health system is nowhere
close to strong enough to keep us safe from infectious disease, and
“us” means everyone, not just those in faraway places where this is
one threat among many that claim lives every day.
The rest of the world can sleep at night because a group of men and
women are willing to stand and fight. For tireless acts of courage and
mercy, for buying the world time to boost its defenses, for risking, for
persisting, for sacrificing and saving, the Ebola fighters are TIME’s
2014 Person of the Year.
Nancy Gibbs
8. Behind TIME’s Person of the Year
Ebola Fighters Cover
Five images that define the fight
against the deadly virus
9. Dr. Jerry Brown, 46,
medical director and
surgeon in Monrovia,
Liberia
“There was a kind of gravity to
the way Dr. Jerry Brown and
his staff were working,” says
Nickerson. “When we met Dr.
Brown, we had the idea to do
something very simple against
a plain color, something of a
more formal portrait. And then,
he invited us to go into the
Ebola Treatment Unit, into the
reception area where he gets
dressed. It was a very simple,
bare room. It had a single light
bulb, and I just thought it
captured the atmosphere and
gravity of what they were
doing.” Photograph by Jackie
Nickerson for TIME
10. Salome Karwah, 26, caregiver
at the Doctors Without
Borders/Médecins Sans
Frontières (MSF) clinic in
Monrovia
“She’s an [Ebola] survivor and an
incredibly brave woman,” says
Nickerson. “When we met Salome,
she was a typical young woman, she
was all dressed up, she had jewelry
on and she was a little nervous about
having her picture taken. But then,
she put her scrubs…she became very
calm, a little bit introverted. She
showed me where she worked in the
Médecins Sans Frontières /Doctors
Without Borders (MSF) compound.
We just wanted a plain background,
so we came out of the dressing room
and [this shot was taken] right there.”
Photograph by Jackie Nickerson for
TIME
11. Dr. Kent Brantly, 33,
physician with
Samaritan’s Purse
“Kent was working in West
Africa doing a lot of hard,
selfless work to help people
out,” says Schutmaat. “I met at
his church in Fort Worth, Texas.
TIME’s photo editors and I felt
that since he was a man of faith
and since he was guided by that
faith, it would be good to
photograph him in there. And
while the portrait is very formal,
the whole meeting was very
informal. We talked a bit, tried a
number of different set-ups
using natural light. I had no
inclination to shoot for the
cover. I was just shooting how I
normally would shoot.”
Photograph by Bryan Schutmaat
for Time
12. Ella Watson-Stryker, 34,
health promoter with MSF
“We took this picture very early in the
morning, because everybody at MSF
is incredibly busy, everybody is doing
very important work,” says Nickerson.
“And here we are, we come along and
we’re trying to take them away from
their important job. It literally took us
10 minutes to do that shot; and she
was distracted, she wanted to do
other things. What I love about that
picture is the fact that it’s just her.
She’s not trying to be anybody else.
She’s just standing there because I
have to take her picture. And she’s a
very attractive person, but you can
see the tightness in her face because
she’s been working in Liberia and
Sierra Leone as well. She’s had a long
run of it.” Photograph by Jackie
Nickerson for TIME
13. Foday Gallah, 37, ambulance
supervisor in Monrovia
“Foday’s story is heartbreaking,” says
Nickerson. “He contracted Ebola
when he was trying to comfort a
young kid, who was incredibly
distressed. ‘I just had to pick the kid
up and comfort him,’ he told us. Of
course, he got vomit all over him and
that’s how he got Ebola. He’s the
shinning example of what the right
thing to do is. He’s a shinning
example that we should all try to
follow. He really did touch me with his
story. I don’t usually like to use the
word hero, but I have to use it here.”
Photograph by Jackie Nickerson for
TIME
15. Dr. Kent Brantly, 33
Physician with
Samaritan’s Purse,
Bryan Schutmaat
for TIME
16. Dr. Jerry Brown, 46 Medical
director and general surgeon
at the Eternal Love Winning
Africa [ELWA] Hospital in
Monrovia and director of the
ELWA 2 Ebola treatment
center, Jackie Nickerson for
TIME
17. Dr. Mosoka Fallah, 44 An
American-educated
Liberian infectious-disease
expert who returned to his
country last year to help
establish a school of
public health and now
leads the effort to find,
monitor and isolate the
contacts of Ebola victims,
Jackie Nickerson for TIME
18. Dr. Philip Ireland, 44
Liberian doctor at John
F. Kennedy Medical
Center in Monrovia,
Liberia’s largest
hospital, Bryan
Schutmaat for TIME
19. Dr. Bruce Ribner, 69
Medical director of Emory
University Hospital’s
Serious Communicable
Disease Unit in Atlanta,
Bryan Schutmaat for TIME
21. Foday Gallah, 37 Ambulance
supervisor, Monrovia, and
Ebola survivor, Jackie
Nickerson for TIME
22. Morris Kanneh, 45 Driver for
the Liberian Red Cross
dead-body-management
team in Monrovia,Jackie
Nickerson for TIME
23. Salome Karwah, 26 Nurse’s
assistant at the Doctors Without
Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières
(MSF) clinic in Monrovia and an
Ebola survivor, Jackie Nickerson
for TIME
24. Katie Meyler, 32 Founder
of More Than Me, a
school for vulnerable
girls from the West Point
slum in Monrovia, Jackie
Nickerson for TIME
25. Nelson Sayon, 29 Worker
with the Liberian Red
Cross body-management
team, Monrovia, Jackie
Nickerson for TIME
26. Ella Watson-Stryker, 34
Health promoter with
Doctors Without
Borders/Médecins Sans
Frontières (MSF), Jackie
Nickerson for TIME
27. Nancy Writebol, 59
Missionary serving with
SIM, Rajah Bose—The
New York Times/Redux
42. The chapel which was converted into the first Ebola treatment unit at ELWA Hospital in Monrovia, Liberia.
43. Any PP E (Personal Protective Equipment) th at cannot be sterilized and reused is burned at ELWA Hospital in Monrovia,
Liberia.
44. Scenes From Monrovia, Liberia
A Photographer is Covering Ebola’s Deadly Spread
Daniel Berehulak, The New York Times/Redux
45. Membe rs of a Liberian Red Cross burial tea m, under contract from the Liberian Ministry of Health, remove the body of
suspected Ebola victim Lorpu David, 30, on Sept. 18, 2014, in the Gurley street community in central Monrovia, Liberia
46. Membe rs of a Liberian Red Cross burial tea m, under contract from the Liberian Ministry of Health, remove the body of
suspected Ebola victim Lorpu David, 30, on Sept. 18, 2014, in the Gurley street community in central Monrovia, Liberia
47. A buria l team collects the body of a 75-year -old woman in a neighborhood called PHP in Monrovia, Liberia, Sept. 18, 2014.
48. A resid ent of the West Point neighborhood covers his nose as a burial team leaves with a body in Monrovia, Liberia, Sept.
17, 2014.
49. Membe rs of a burial team from the Liberian Red Cross remove the body of a man, a suspected Ebola victim, from a home in
Matadi on Sept. 17, 2014 in Monrovia, Liberia.
50. A mem ber of a Liberian Red Cross burial te am is disinfected, with chlorine sprayed on by a colleague, after having
removed the body of a man, a suspected Ebola victim, on Sept. 6, 2014 in Monrovia, Liberia.
51. Residents look on as the body of a man suspected of dying from Ebola lies in a busy street after it was reportedly dragged
there to draw the attention of burial teams. For several days, his family had asked for the body to be picked up, to no avail.
Monrovia, Liberia, Sept. 15, 2014.
52. Friend s and relatives weep as a burial team removes the body of a 75-year-old woman. Her neighbors insisted she had died
of a stroke. Monrovia, Liberia, Sept. 18, 2014.
53. Eric Gweah, 25, grieves as he watches members of a Red Cross burial team carry the body his father, Ofori Gweah, 62, a
suspected Ebola victim, in a riverside area called Rock Spring Valley in central Monrovia, Liberia, Sept. 18, 2014. Ofori
Gweah had endured Ebolaís telltale symptoms for six days, his family took him to treatment centers twice, only to be
turned back. So many Ebola victims are dying at home due to a severe shortage of treatment centers in Monrovia, and
many of the ill are infecting family members, neighbors and others in a ballooning circle of contagion.
54. Reside nts discuss an Ebola awareness cam paign in Monrovia, Liberia, Aug. 30, 2014
55. James Dorbor, 8, suspected to have Ebola, lays on the ground as his father Edward tried to get the boy to drink coconut
water. They waited for James to be admitted into the JFK Ebola treatment center on Sept. 5, 2014 in Monrovia, Liberia.
56. Edwar d Dorbor reacts after believing that h is son, James Dorbor, 8, had died. However, the boy survived for a few
additional hours before dying at the JFK Ebola treatment center on Sept. 5, 2014 in Monrovia, Liberia.
57. Medical staff rush into the treatment facility, carrying James Dorbor, 8, suspected of having Ebola. Since the health
workers weren't wearing the appropriate protection against Ebola, they positioned James' body in a way to limit exposure
to the deadly virus. Monrovia, Liberia, Sept. 5, 2014
58. A relative grieves as members of a Liberian Red Cross burial team dress themselves in full protective clothing prior to
removing the body of suspected Ebola victim, Ofori Gweah, 62, on Sept. 18, 2014 in central Monrovia, Liberia.
59. Medical staff spray down a small plastic bag containing the blood sample of Hawa Konneh, 9, a suspected Ebola victim, as
she lays on the dirt wrapped in a shawl in front of the Doctors Without Borders (MSF) Ebola treatment center, as her
mother, Masogbe, sits near to her prior to Hawa's passing away on Sept. 4, 2014 in Monrovia, Liberia.
60. Reside nts of the West Point neighborhood attend church after a 10-day quarantine was lifted in Monrovia, Liberia, Aug. 31,
2014.
61. Behind the Scenes of TIME’s Person of the Year Photoshoot in Liberia
end
62. Photo grapher Jackie Nickerson photo graphs nurse Salome Karwah in Monrovia, Liberia on Nov. 26, 2014
Paul Moakley
63. TIME’s Africa Bureau Chief Aryn Baker (right) in Monrovia, Liberia Jackie Nickerson for TIME
64. TIME’ s Deputy Director of Photograph y Paul Moakley (right) and TIME’s Africa Bureau Chief Aryn Baker
in Monrovia, LiberiaJackie Nickerson for TIME
65. cast TIME’s 2014 Person of the Year
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