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  • While the Ebola vaccine was trialled it had to be kept at a temperature of minus 60 degrees celsius, these Arktek passive vaccine storage devices use jet fuel to keep the right temperature for up to five days in the field, even being opened several times a day. Here a vaccine core is being inserted into the device.
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  • Aboubacar Sylla, aged 79, lost 4 members of his family in the Ebola outbreak of 2014-15. <br />
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His daughter M’Mah was one of the lucky ones. As soon as she started showing symptoms of the deadly disease, her father made sure that she was taken straight to hospital where early treatment helped save her life. <br />
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Surrounded by multiple generations of his large family at their home in the district of Dixinn Port, Conakry, Sylla tells how the family was shunned by their own community when Ebola struck his family.<br />
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“Before the Ebola outbreak, everyone talked to one another here. Then suddenly we weren’t even allowed to leave our house,” he said.<br />
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People stopped using the well in the open area in front of their home for fear of contamination and the children were forbidden to step out past the boundary of their front courtyard where they were used to playing.<br />
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M’Mah was not living in the family house when she got sick, but her brother Aboubacar was the one who went to her house where she was living with her husband and took her to the Ebola treatment centre in Nongo. <br />
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“Everyone was so scared of Ebola but I couldn’t just abandon my sister. She would have died,” he said, telling how his decision to ride in the ambulance with her caused division within the family.<br />
Since then, even though he never got sick, Aboubacar has suffered stigma from his contact with Ebola and has found it difficult to get work anymore. <br />
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As soon as M’Mah arrived at the Ebola treatment centre, the disease surveillance system alerted the vaccine trial team of this new case. The team sent two local social mobilizers, trained specifically by WHO for this delicate role, to visit the family and to ask if they would agree to participate in a research trial to help develop a vaccine against Ebola. <br />
The Guinea vaccine trial, led by WHO, used a method called ring vaccination. This method, used to eradicate smallpox, aims to vaccinate a “ring” of all the people who had close contact with the pe
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  • Aboubacar Sylla, aged 79, lost 4 members of his family in the Ebola outbreak of 2014-15. <br />
<br />
His daughter M’Mah was one of the lucky ones. As soon as she started showing symptoms of the deadly disease, her father made sure that she was taken straight to hospital where early treatment helped save her life. <br />
<br />
Surrounded by multiple generations of his large family at their home in the district of Dixinn Port, Conakry, Sylla tells how the family was shunned by their own community when Ebola struck his family.<br />
<br />
“Before the Ebola outbreak, everyone talked to one another here. Then suddenly we weren’t even allowed to leave our house,” he said.<br />
<br />
People stopped using the well in the open area in front of their home for fear of contamination and the children were forbidden to step out past the boundary of their front courtyard where they were used to playing.<br />
<br />
M’Mah was not living in the family house when she got sick, but her brother Aboubacar was the one who went to her house where she was living with her husband and took her to the Ebola treatment centre in Nongo. <br />
<br />
“Everyone was so scared of Ebola but I couldn’t just abandon my sister. She would have died,” he said, telling how his decision to ride in the ambulance with her caused division within the family.<br />
<br />
Since then, even though he never got sick, Aboubacar has suffered stigma from his contact with Ebola and has found it difficult to get work anymore. <br />
<br />
As soon as M’Mah arrived at the Ebola treatment centre, the disease surveillance system alerted the vaccine trial team of this new case. The team sent two local social mobilizers, trained specifically by WHO for this delicate role, to visit the family and to ask if they would agree to participate in a research trial to help develop a vaccine against Ebola. <br />
The Guinea vaccine trial, led by WHO, used a method called ring vaccination. This method, used to eradicate smallpox, aims to vaccinate a “ring” of all the people who had close contact with the p
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  • Hadja Kakoro Sogbe and Halimatu Diallo, members of team nine of the WHO Ebola vaccine trials in Guinea, went through the extensive consent procedure with a participant in the Ebola vaccine trial. They wore protective clothing as the participants were all direct contacts of verified cases of Ebola.
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  • Mohamed Soumah, 27, the first person to be vaccinated in the Ebola vaccine trial. "It wasn't easy, I can't say I wasn't afraid, I was afraid. People in the village were saying that the injection was to kill me. I was the first one to be injected, the very first, here in my village on March 23. 44 people were vaccinated. I had fever after the vaccination, it worried me a bit, but they warned me that would happen and it didn't last long. I've been monitored for three months and I've had no problems. The last follow up, 84 days after the vaccination, was all clear".
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  • Sekou Minkailou, (centre) chief of Matam district in Conakry, worked closely with the team from WHO to convince his people to participate in the Ebola vaccine trial. In Matam district, 10 people, including a doctor, had already died during the outbreak and people were frightened of this new disease that they had never seen before in their country.<br />
“People were so scared, they refused to follow the advice from the government and health workers. They didn’t even want the Red Cross to be involved. They hid the bodies of people who died from Ebola because there was such horrible stigma attached to the family once it was touched by Ebola.”<br />
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Minkailou and his colleagues in the district office were often the first people to have contact with families when a new Ebola case was announced. “We feel really happy, so relieved that this vaccine protects us,” he said.
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  • A doctor wore PPE in the phase III clinical trials for Ebola virus disease vaccine in Guinea. The technique used was "ring vaccination" which was used in the 1970s to eliminate smallpox.
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  • The World Health Organisation is running phase III clinical trials for ebola virus disease vaccine in Guinea. The technique being used is "ring vaccination" which was used in the 1970s to eliminate smallpox.
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  • A young man in Bonfe village, the first village in Guinea to take part in the Ebola vaccine trials that begin in March 2015.
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  • The phase III clinical trial of the Ebola vaccine in Guinea was hampered by difficulty in transport to remote regions.
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  • rVSV Zebov-GP, the Ebola vaccine that was trialled in Guinea, ready to be administered to a participant in the clinical trial in Guinea.
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  • A young woman in the village of Katongourou, western Guinea, an area heavily affected by Ebola. Many people in the village were participants in the WHO Ebola vaccine trial.
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  • rVSV Zebov-GP, the Ebola vaccine that was trialled in Guinea, ready to be administered to a participant in the clinical trial in Guinea.
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  • Mamadouba Conté processed blood samples in the Ebola lab at Donka Hospital in Conakry, Guinea as part of the Ebola vaccine clinical trials.
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  • WHO staff prepared pharmaceuticals for participants in the clinical trials of the Ebola vaccine in Guinea.
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  • The bonnet of a vehicle of the World Health Organisation during the clinical trials for ebola virus disease vaccine in Guinea.
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  • The phase III clinical trial of the Ebola vaccine in Guinea was hampered by difficulty in transport to remote regions.
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  • rVSV Zebov-GP, the Ebola vaccine being prepared for injection.
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  • Billo Mamadou Diallo, Karamoko Sonah Camara, Alain Mukendi, Jean Francoi Tolno and Hawa Madi, part of Team Nine of the WHO Ebola vaccine trial staff, at work in Katongourou, Guinea .
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  • Foromo Kpakpavogui, Ebola vaccine laboratory technician at Donka Hospital, Conakry, Guinea.
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  • Fatoumata Conte, logisitics specialist for the WHO during the Ebola vaccine clinical trial in Conakry, Guinea.
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  • Young men in Bonfe village, the first village in Guinea to take part in the Ebola vaccine trials that began in March 2015.
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  • Team nine of the WHO Ebola vaccine trial at work in Guinea.
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  • Nene Aminata Diallo (l) and Gamou Saiman Gaston (r), carefully go through the consent process with a participant in the Ebola vaccine trial.
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  • During the phase III Ebola vaccine trial in Guinea, serum was separated from red blood cells for Ebola tests in Donka Hospital in Conakry, Guinea.
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  • Fodeba Diakite took part in the trial of the Ebola vaccine in 2015.
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  • While Dr Chan was Director General of the World Health Organization, she visited some of the communities in Conakry, Guinea that were most heavily affected by Ebola. <br />
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Dr Chan spoke with people who took part in the Ebola trial in the Coronthie neighbourhood of Conakry. Dr Chan thanked them for their contribution to proving the efficacy of the Ebola vaccine.
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  • Mariam Camara and her one-month-old son Aboubacar fils. Mariam lived with nearly 70 others in an extended family household with her grandfather Aboubacar Sylla. Most took part in the Ebola vaccine trial.
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  • M'Mah Sylla, the younger, part of the Sylla household, took part in the WHO-led Ebola vaccine trial in 2015.
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  • Aboubacar Mafoudia Sylla, took his sister to hospital when she became ill with Ebola. He also took part in the Ebola vaccine trial in 2015.
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  • While Dr Chan was Director General of the World Health Organization, she visited some of the communities in Conakry, Guinea that were most heavily affected by Ebola. <br />
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Dr Chan spoke with people who took part in the Ebola trial in the Coronthie neighbourhood of Conakry. Dr Chan thanked them for their contribution to proving the efficacy of the Ebola vaccine.
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  • While Dr Chan was Director General of the World Health Organization, she visited some of the communities in Conakry, Guinea that were most heavily affected by Ebola. <br />
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Dr Chan spoke with people who took part in the Ebola trial in the Coronthie neighbourhood of Conakry. Dr Chan thanked them for their contribution to proving the efficacy of the Ebola vaccine.
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  • While Dr Chan was Director General of the World Health Organization, she visited some of the communities in Conakry, Guinea that were most heavily affected by Ebola. <br />
<br />
Dr Chan spoke with people who took part in the Ebola trial in the Coronthie neighbourhood of Conakry. Dr Chan thanked them for their contribution to proving the efficacy of the Ebola vaccine.
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  • Aboubacar fils, a one-month-old baby born in a household affected by Ebola. The family took part in the Ebola vaccine trial.
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  • M'Mah Sylla, the younger, part of the Sylla household, took part in the WHO-led Ebola vaccine trial in 2015.
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  • Yarie Sylla, at home in her grandfather's house, took part in the WHO-led Ebola vaccine trial in 2015.
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  • Rouguiatou Soumah, 15, part of the Sylla household that took part in the Ebola vaccine trial in 2015.
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  • Karamoko Sonah Camara, head of a WHO Ebola vaccination trial team, prepared pharmaceuticals for the participants of the trial.
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  • Dr. Sakoba Keita, coordinator of the Guinean Ebola Response spoke to local media during a village meeting on Ebola.
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  • Dr. Sakoba Keita, coordinator of the Guinean Ebola Response spoke to local media during a village meeting on Ebola.
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  • Allasane Coumbassa, at the Conakry City Morgue. The morgue dealt with many Ebola deaths, Ousmane complained of inadequate protective measures, clothing or waste management to deal with the Ebola .
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  • A poster from the Ebola ça Suffit campaign against Ebola in Guinea
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  • A security guard in Guinea wears PPE and holds a thermo flash, a non-contact thermometer for testing at a road block. High temperature is the first major sign of Ebola infection, anyone with a temperature of 37 degrees celsius or above was stopped immediately for further testing and isolation to stop the spread of infections.
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  • A security guard in Guinea wears PPE and holds a thermo flash, a non-contact thermometer for testing at a road block. High temperature is the first major sign of Ebola infection, anyone with a temperature of 37 degrees celsius or above was stopped immediately for further testing and isolation to stop the spread of infections.
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  • The drill for destroying the Ebola virus where medical staff come in contact with confirmed cases is strict routine, one small mistake and the infection can be passed on. Staff in PPE, are often close to being overcome by the heat and dehydration, and sometimes need to be shouted instructions like "raise your head up" as each part of the drill is gone through, a series of specific movements as they are sprayed with a bleach solution and each part of the protective clothing is peeled off in the right order and in the right direction, and put straight in the incineration bucket, even the ground where they stand is considered contaminated and has to be covered in bleach. Eventually, a very grateful and completely sweat-sodden worker emerges from inside.
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  • Director General of WHO, Dr Margaret Chan spoke to media in Conakry Guinea, flanked by Minister of Health Dr. Abdourahmane Diallo.
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  • Fatoumata Binta, with her daughter, also called Fatoumata. First her husband got sick and died from Ebola, then she began showing symptoms, and then, one after the other, their four children all got sick from Ebola. Fatoumata and her children were all discharged from the Ebola treatment centre in Donka in April 2015.
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  • A box with child-sized body bags at the Nongo Ebola Treatment Centre, Conakry, Guinea. <br />
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At the peak of the Ebola outbreak in Guinea, the Nongo Ebola treatment centre had so many patients arriving at its gates that people were left to die on the gravel outside. <br />
“One night, 28 people died here. I still have nightmares, I saw too many dead people,” said Dr Mohammed Keita, manager of the centre where he was in charge of 250 employees.  <br />
The former Ebola treatment centre appears abandoned. Boot stands and shelves once filled with protective gear and chlorine spray backpacks lie empty.  <br />
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Keita tells how one night a pregnant woman came in to the centre. She was already bleeding and very ill. It was too late to save her. She gave birth to a baby girl before she died. <br />
“That little baby was blessed by God,” he said, pointing to a photo of the child taped to the wall where patient records and lists of staff mark the wall. <br />
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She tested positive for Ebola and we were prepared to lose her as well. Then, a few days later, she tested negative for the disease. We all looked after her here, naming her Nubia after one of the health workers who worked at the centre.<br />
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Since the Ebola outbreak ended, the treatment centre is now caring for people with other infectious diseases including measles, yellow fever and other diseases with potential to cause epidemics.
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  • At the peak of the Ebola outbreak in Guinea, the Nongo Ebola treatment centre had so many patients arriving at its gates that people were left to die on the gravel outside. <br />
“One night, 28 people died here. I still have nightmares, I saw too many dead people,” said Dr Mohammed Keita, manager of the centre where he was in charge of 250 employees.  <br />
The former Ebola treatment centre appears abandoned. Boot stands and shelves once filled with protective gear and chlorine spray backpacks lie empty.  <br />
Keita tells how one night a pregnant woman came in to the centre. She was already bleeding and very ill. It was too late to save her. She gave birth to a baby girl before she died. <br />
<br />
“That little baby was blessed by God,” he said, pointing to a photo of the child taped to the wall where patient records and lists of staff mark the wall. <br />
<br />
She tested positive for Ebola and we were prepared to lose her as well. Then, a few days later, she tested negative for the disease. We all looked after her here, naming her Nubia after one of the health workers who worked at the centre.<br />
Since the Ebola outbreak ended, the treatment centre is now caring for people with other infectious diseases including measles, yellow fever and other diseases with potential to cause epidemics.
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  • A painted wall in the street in Conakry
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