"She said, ‘Oliver, don’t touch me.’ She couldn’t touch Oliver Junior either, and she had to stop breastfeeding him instantly because it is contagious through all body fluids.
“She was so weak she couldn’t even sing Happy Birthday to our son.”
The symptoms Oliver described chart the classic, rapid downfall in healthy people caused by debilitating Ebola.
The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control said Ebola started with fever, muscle aches, weakness, headaches and sore throat.
The next stage is often characterised by vomiting, diarrhoea, rash and malfunction of the liver and kidneys.
Worst of all, some patients have severe internal and external bleeding and multiple organ failure.
Survival rates are less than 40%, and there is no vaccine or treatment, although a trial is underway in Liberia.
That is why the capital Monrovia is currently gripped by paranoia and suspicion over the spread of the disease.
“I brought her here later that day, eight days ago,” Oliver said, as we wait outside the clinic for his wife’s final journey.
“Within a week she was dead. I never got a chance to say goodbye. I could only speak on the phone.
"The last time we spoke, she told me her heart had stopped beating too fast.
“She said, ‘Don’t worry, I’ll be fine.’ Now I am here to watch her be carried out in a bag.”
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