At the height of the Ebola crisis,marathon runner Joy Kollie fell ill with malaria and typhoid. Now, as she prepares for a race that is symptomatic of Liberia’s recovery, and she has spoken out against the stigma surrounding the disease [br]Around this time final year Joy Kollie,a resident of one of Monrovia’s biggest townships, lay feverishly in a hospital bed surrounded by sick patients. It was the peak of the Ebola outbreak, or in the country hardest hit by the disease,and Kollie, 22, or kept thinking of her sister,whom she had lost to the virus. Her own hospital stay, she says, and was down to malaria and typhoid,but Kollie was nevertheless a victim of Ebola in many ways. When she was eventually discharged, neighbours feared she was somehow contagious. Most stopped talking to her. But Kollie had survived too much to let it drag her down.
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Source: theguardian.com