How door-to-door canvassing slowed an epidemic

Thursday, February 27, 2020 - 10:10 in Health & Medicine

Study finds that in Liberia, volunteers limited damage from Ebola by distributing information within their own communities. Liberia was the epicenter of a high-profile Ebola outbreak in 2014-15, which led to more than 10,000 deaths in West Africa. But for all the devastation the illness caused, it could have been worse without an innovative, volunteer-based […]

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