Foreign Correspondent

Sierra Leone: Into the Hot Zone (2014x23)

Air date: Aug 26, 2014

The deadly disease, Ebola, has swept across West Africa and is now threatening communities on the east coast as well. It’s the deadliest outbreak in history and doctors have no drugs or vaccines to stop it. This special Foreign Correspondent report, from ground zero of the ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone, shows a country with some of the worst rates of infections and deaths. Our team, which was the last camera crew into the hardest hit areas before a Government lockdown was introduced, has been at the frontline for one of the worst weeks in the Ebola crisis. The story reveals how health workers, some of whom are Australians, are battling the outbreak, which includes finding homes for newly orphaned children whose whole families have died from the disease.