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MONROVIA, Liberia — Not a month ago, Esther's mother and father first started to feel sick. They drove several hours from their home to an Ebola testing center in Liberia's capital, Monrovia, and were diagnosed with a disease that already has killed far more than 3,000 Africans. They were admitted for treatment, which by the most optimistic assessments is saving only half of those diagnosed with the disease.
Esther wasn't showing symptoms but was tested anyway. The result came back positive: The 10-year-old had Ebola too. But that was only the beginning of her nightmare.
During her stay in the treatment center, Esther slipped into a coma. Her parents died while their daughter was unconscious, never to know that she would awake, delirious and weak, just days later, having beaten Ebola. As would be the case with any child, once the fogginess of returning to consciousness wore off, she began to ask for her parents. It was then that she was informed that they were both gone. Too weak to cry, she lay in stunned silence, unable to comprehend the finality of the news she just receivedShe had no one to care for her. She didn't even have anyone to take her home. Read more...
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