February 12, 2021
Beating Ebola
Peace Corps’ untold story of fighting the virus in Guinea By Douglass P. Teschner This story first appeared in the Summer 2019 edition of WorldView magazine. We bring it to you here as we battle another pandemic. In West Africa between December 2013 and June 2016, there were 28,616 known cases of the Ebola virus and 11,310 deaths. 3,804 of those cases and 2,536 deaths were in Guinea, where I was Peace Corps country director. But there would have been many more if it hadn’t been for the work of Peace Corps staff and RPCVs. When the epidemic was...