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A Massachusetts Doctor's Story Of Fighting Ebola In Liberia

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Jamie Bologna
Deborah Becker

March 16, 2017

Health workers carry the body of a woman they suspect died from the Ebola virus in Monrovia in 2014. (Abbas Dulleh/AP)

In 2014, the Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa had reached it's terrible peak in Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia. For Dr. Steven Hatch, a specialist in infectious disease at UMass Memorial, that Ebola outbreak drew him to Liberia, where he worked to fight the virus.

Guest

Dr. Steven Hatch, assistant professor of medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School working in the Division of Infectious Disease and Immunology. His latest book is "Inferno: A Doctor's Ebola Story."

This segment aired on March 16, 2017.