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A Massachusetts Doctor's Story Of Fighting Ebola In Liberia

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

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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.

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