Jonathan PayeLayleh

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Liberia president describes heavy cost of Ebola

Jonathan PayeLayleh · October 19, 2014 7:07 pm

Health workers in protective gear wait to carry a body of a person suspected to have died from Ebola not in frame Monrovia ,Liberia. Monday, Oct. 13, 2014. Some nurses in Liberia defied calls for a strike on Monday and turned up for work at hospitals amid the worst Ebola outbreak in history. In view of the danger of their work, members of the National Health Workers Association are demanding higher monthly hazard pay. The association has more than 10,000 members, though the health ministry says only about 1,000 of those are employed at sites receiving Ebola patients. (AP Photo/ Abbas Dulleh)

Liberia avoids mass hospital strike amid Ebola

Jonathan PayeLayleh · October 13, 2014 4:39 pm

Liberia women walk past a sign warning people of the deadly Ebola virus in Monrovia, Liberia. Friday, Oct. 10, 2014. The number of people killed in the Ebola outbreak has risen above 4,000, according to the World Health Organization. (AP Photo/ Abbas Dulleh)

Liberia nurses threaten strike over Ebola pay

Jonathan PayeLayleh · October 12, 2014 12:35 pm

Liberia women walk past a sign warning people of the deadly Ebola virus in Monrovia, Liberia. Friday, Oct. 10, 2014. The number of people killed in the Ebola outbreak has risen above 4,000, according to the World Health Organization. (AP Photo/ Abbas Dulleh)

Liberia: 41 UN staffers under Ebola observation

Jonathan PayeLayleh · October 11, 2014 11:46 am

Liberia to prosecute man who brought Ebola to US

Jonathan PayeLayleh · October 2, 2014 5:39 pm

A sign asking for people not to stand is plastered on a wall across from the Island Clinic Ebola isolation and treatment center in Monrovia, Liberia, Friday Sept. 26, 2014. The outbreak of Ebola has overwhelmed the weak health systems of some of the world's poorest countries - there aren't enough doctors and nurses or even clinics to treat the spiraling number of cases.(AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

Liberia: Top doctor goes under Ebola quarantine

Jonathan PayeLayleh · September 27, 2014 7:30 pm

A woman, center, reacts as she and others celebrate on the streets outside of West Point, that have been closed in by Liberian security forces to stop all movement the past week in a attempt to control the Ebola outbreak in Monrovia, Liberia, Saturday, Aug. 30, 2014. Liberia says it will open up a slum in its capital where thousands of people were barricaded to contain the spread of Ebola. Information Minister Lewis Brown says lifting the quarantine Saturday morning will not mean there is no Ebola in the West Point Slum. (AP Photo/Abbas Dulleh)

Liberian Ebola survivor praises experimental drug

Jonathan PayeLayleh · August 30, 2014 3:13 pm

Ebola has ‘upper hand’ says US health official

Jonathan PayeLayleh · August 27, 2014 4:00 am

In this undated handout photo provided by Medecins Sans Frontieres, local staff and healthcare workers for Doctors Without Borders, exit an isolation ward in Guekedou, Guinea. For doctors and nurses fighting Ebola in West Africa, working in head-to-toe protective gear in muddy health clinics is often the least of their problems, as many also struggle to convince people they are there to stop Ebola, not spread it. (AP Photo/MSF)

Liberia president declares Ebola curfew

Jonathan PayeLayleh · August 19, 2014 11:58 pm

People pass by Ebola virus health warning signs, in the city of Monrovia, Liberia, Sunday, Aug. 17, 2014. Liberian officials fear Ebola could soon spread through the capital's largest slum after residents raided a quarantine center for suspected patients and took items including blood-stained sheets and mattresses. The violence in the West Point slum occurred late Saturday and was led by residents angry that patients were brought from other parts of the capital to the holding center, Tolbert Nyenswah, assistant health minister, said Sunday. (AP Photo/Abbas Dulleh)

Liberia: Ebola fears rise as clinic is looted

Jonathan PayeLayleh · August 17, 2014 4:48 pm

Liberian ex-soccer star Weah records Ebola song

Jonathan PayeLayleh · August 11, 2014 12:59 pm

Liberia President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, left, speaks as she attends a church service at the Providence Baptist Church to mark the end of three days praying to stop the spread of the Ebola virus, in the city of Monrovia, Liberia, Friday, Aug. 8, 2014. Over the decades, Ebola cases have been confirmed in 10 African countries, including Congo where the disease was first reported in 1976. But until this year, Ebola had never come to West Africa. (AP Photo/Abbas Dulleh)

Liberians demand that govt picks up Ebola bodies

Jonathan PayeLayleh · August 9, 2014 7:53 pm