The Ebola epidemic in West Africa has been the worst in history, claiming more than 10,000 lives. To convey the scale of the outbreak, The Times has mobilized dozens of reporters, photographers, video journalists and others over the last year, producing more than 400 articles, including about 50 front-page articles from inside the Ebola-afflicted countries. Following is a sample of their work.
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NOV. 13, 2014By NORIMITSU ONISHI
The Doryen family, unbowed survivors of Liberia’s civil war, saw seven members die from the virus in a matter of months and lost its sense of unity.
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OCT. 4, 2014By HELENE COOPER
As Ebola ravages West Africa, Liberians are losing an integral part of their culture, in which the double-cheek kiss was once the standard greeting.
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AUG. 23, 2014By ADAM NOSSITER and BEN C. SOLOMON
In the battle against Ebola, the front line is stitched together not only by doctors and nurses, but also by janitors, drivers and body handlers whose work puts their lives at risk.
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OCT. 16, 2014By BEN C. SOLOMON
Only about 15 ambulance teams are available to aid Monrovia, a city of nearly 1.5 million people, where hundreds of new Ebola cases are reported each week.
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Dec 30, 2014By KEVIN SACK, SHERI FINK, PAM BELLUCK and ADAM NOSSITER
For a fleeting moment last spring, the epidemic sweeping West Africa might have been stopped. But the opportunity to control the virus, which has now caused more than 7,800 deaths, was lost.
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OCT. 1, 2014By ADAM NOSSITER
Ebola is sweeping into areas of West Africa that had been largely spared the onslaught. The consequences in one Sierra Leone hospital have been devastating.
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AUG. 28, 2014By NORIMITSU ONISHI
Monrovia has become, in a few short weeks, a major focal point of the epidemic, with the outbreak overwhelming the government of President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.
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AUG. 7, 2014By ADAM NOSSITER
Some Ebola patients still die at a Sierra Leone hospital, but just as many, if not more, are dying in the city and neighboring villages, increasing the risk of the disease’s spread.
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AUG. 11, 2014By ADAM NOSSITER
More than 60 people have died from the virus in a tiny village in Sierra Leone, and now people there worry that a quarantine will cut off their food and supplies.
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MARCH 4, 2015By NORIMITSU ONISHI
Ebola cases have receded into the single digits in Liberia, but fear of the virus and a depressed economy have dampened a back-to-school campaign.
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OCT. 30, 2014By HELENE COOPER
As Liberia’s first elected leader after a devastating civil war, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has pushed the country to economic growth, but gains have been halted by the Ebola outbreak.
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Jan 11, 2015By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN
As Ebola gnaws through Sierra Leone, those at Bureh Beach Surf Club teach and feed tourists, eking out a living seemingly determined to pursue their passion as a way to cope.
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NOV. 16, 2014By ADAM NOSSITER
In Guinea’s Forest Region, villages that have refused outside help to fight the Ebola outbreak are starting to soften their resistance.
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Nov 10, 2014By SHERI FINK
Over and over, doctors have been confounded by the divergent paths of Ebola patients whose cases appeared similar at first.
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JULY 27, 2014By ADAM NOSSITER
Health workers with Doctors Without Borders have been threatened with knives, stones and machetes by Guineans who blame them for spreading the deadly virus.
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SEPT. 13, 2014By NORIMITSU ONISHI
Liberia remains desperately short on everything needed to halt the spread of Ebola, but an epidemiologist is working block by block to fill a crucial need: the support of residents.
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OCT. 5, 2014By ADAM NOSSITER
More than $140,000 worth of medical supplies have been locked inside a dented container at the port in Freetown, Sierra Leone, since Aug. 9.
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SEPT. 3, 2014By SHERI FINK
The epidemic has exposed gaping holes in the ability to tackle outbreaks in an increasingly interconnected world, where diseases can quickly spread from remote villages to cities housing millions of people.