<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><xml><records><record><source-app name="HighWire" version="7.x">Drupal-HighWire</source-app><ref-type name="Journal Article">17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mobula, Linda Meta</style></author></authors><secondary-authors></secondary-authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Courage is not the absence of fear: responding to the Ebola outbreak in Liberia</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Global Health: Science and Practice</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2014</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2014-12-01 00:00:00</style></date></pub-dates></dates><pages><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">487-489</style></pages><doi><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">10.9745/GHSP-D-14-00157</style></doi><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2</style></volume><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">4</style></issue><abstract><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Since the onset of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa in February 2014, the World Health Organization estimates that more than 370 health care workers have been infected with Ebola virus disease (EVD), and 216 have since died.1During the height of the Ebola epidemic, I had the unique opportunity of working at the Ebola Case Management Center of the Eternal Love Winning Africa (ELWA) hospital in Monrovia, Liberia. About a third of all patients with Ebola admitted to ELWA were health care workers.2 Some of these brave individuals had worked tirelessly, treating Ebola patients while fully aware that they could become infected themselves. Others were likely exposed to EVD at their respective government health facilities, unaware that their patients had Ebola. Exposure to Ebola patients outside of an Ebola management center increases one's risk of contracting the illness, especially since there are no infection control measures in place for protection.A famous quote from author Ambrose Hollingworth Redmoon (born James Neil Hollingworth) goes3: Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. The timid presume it is lack of fear that allows the brave to act when the timid do not. But to take action when one is not afraid is easy. To refrain when afraid is also easy. To take action regardless of fear is brave. Redmoon's assertion describes perfectly the bravery of those who have sacrificed their lives to treat an illness with no known scientifically proven cure. In my time serving at ELWA, as more health care workers became infected, fewer …</style></abstract></record></records></xml>