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What do you do when a life-threatening disease makes it too dangerous to save the person closest to you?
Producer: Jake Halpern
The Outbreak, Snap #802 – Mirrors
January 27, 2017
What do you do when a life-threatening disease makes it too dangerous to save the person closest to you?
Producer: Jake Halpern
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What do you do when a life-threatening disease makes it too dangerous to save the person closest to you?
Dr. Phillip Ireland was a physician at JFK Hospital in Liberia during the virulent outbreak of Ebola in 2014 when families were torn apart by the runaway virus.
Producer: Jake Halpern
Original Score: Renzo Gorrio
Special thanks to Yale NGN.
Additonal assistance: Mark Ristich, Anna Sussman, Adizah Eghan and Eliza Smith
For more on the work of producer Jake Halpern go to http://www.jakehalpern.com .
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