For klarsonafrica, who covered Ebola outbreaks in Africa and was changed forever, the coronavirus pandemic hits very close to home. The latest AP Virus Diary.
In this May 21, 2020, photo, the Larson sisters wash their hands inside the gate at their home in Dakar, Senegal. The girls were adopted from Sierra Leone after their father and other relatives died of Ebola.
And yet nearly two years after her adoption, Ebola still falls into our conversations when we least expect it. Once it was a toddler we befriended at the pool who happened to share the same name as her uncle. He’d died of Ebola, too. I remember the sick being pushed in wheelbarrows down the street, the children so traumatized after their families died that they were unable to speak. Relatives kept vigil outside treatment centers, sometimes notified of a death only after cremation.
Only now school is no longer in session, and two birthdays have come and gone without friends. There are no swimming lessons, no trips to the beach. My oldest daughter, too, has her own memories of that era. But that’s her story to tell one day, when she’s ready.
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