DONALD G. MCNEIL, Science Journalist
American military helicopters ferrying doctors to remote areas were forbidden to fly back not only patients but even blood samples; recently samples from a village had to be walked to a road four hours away.
What Is Ebola? Quote From 'New York Times', Nov.19, 2014.

PETER PIOT, Professor Of Global Health
In principle it is very easy to contain an Ebola outbreak: with gloves, hand-washing, safe injection practices, isolation of patients, safe and rapid discarding of the corpses of those killed by Ebola, and tracing of contacts and subsequent observation for a few weeks. In reality, the health infrastructure where Ebola strikes is usually very poor.
What Is Ebola? Quote From The 'FT' Magazine, May 02, 2014.

NEW YORK TIMES
The W.H.O. said that the high rates of infection among medical workers could be attributed to shortages or improper use of protective equipment; not enough medical personnel; and long working hours in isolation wards.
What Is Ebola? Quote From 'New York Times', Nov. 21, 2014.

TULIP MAZUMDAR, Journalist And Broadcaster
There are posters with warnings dotted everywhere. "ABC - Avoid Body Contact" proclaims one.
What Is Ebola? Quote From BBC World, Nov. 23, 2014.

MIRREN GIDDA, Journalist And Broadcaster
A crowd attacked an Ebola survivor in the New Matadi community in Liberia's capital, Monrovia.
What Is Ebola? Quote From BBC News Africa, Oct. 16, 2014.

MARIATU KAGBO, Red Cross Volunteer, Burial Team
When it's a woman that dies, I cover her to give her some dignity - so the men won't see them naked. That's why I joined this job - for the women. That's why I do this.
What Is Ebola? Quote From BBC News Africa, Nov. 05, 2014.

ARYN BAKER, Journalist
At a popular dance club, the house DJ warns patrons, ‘No too much rubbing, no too much hugging, no too much sweating.
What Is Ebola? Quote From 'Time' Magazine', Oct. 13, 2014.

PETER PIOT, Professor Of Global Health
It is always better to overreact than underreact in epidemics.
What Is Ebola? Quote From The 'FT' Magazine, May 02, 2014.

MARIATU KAGBO, Red Cross Volunteer, Burial Team
They're mocking me. They call me names. Sometimes they attack.
What Is Ebola? Quote From BBC News Africa, Nov. 05, 2014.

TULIP MAZUMDAR, Journalist And Broadcaster
By 09:00 we reach our first checkpoint. Soldiers carrying two different guns stop us. They have rifles over their shoulders and thermos temperature guns in their hands. Lt Martin Tejan holds his temperature gun to my head. I am 36.6 degrees and I am safe to pass through.
What Is Ebola? Quote From BBC World, Nov. 23, 2014.

ARYN BAKER, Journalist
Security guards posted at the entrance of office blocks and grocery stores wield infrared thermometers instead of guns and check the temperature of all who would enter — a high fever is one of the first symptoms of Ebola.
What Is Ebola? Quote From 'Time' Magazine', Oct. 13, 2014.

ANDREW HARDING, Journalist And Broadcaster
I ask the children to raise their hand if they have lost their parents to Ebola. In silence, almost every child puts both hands in the air. Several of them look feverish.
What Is Ebola? Quote From BBC News Africa, Nov. 04, 2014.

DANNY SAVAGE, Journalist And Broadcaster
Medical staff are advised to wear the equipment for no longer than an hour at a time due to the high temperatures that can build up in the suit.
What Is Ebola? Quote From BBC News Africa, Oct. 10, 2014.

NEW YORK TIMES
Workers at some hospitals use two pairs of gloves so that the inner pair remains on during the disrobing process.
What Is Ebola? Quote From 'The New York Times', Oct. 15, 2014.

JEN COPESTAKE, Journalist
It seems a natural step to think about if and where robots could help in a medical crisis like the current Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
What Is Ebola? Quote From BBC Click TV, Nov. 07, 2014.

W.H.O.
Abstain from sex if you start feeling ill.
What Is Ebola? Quote From The 'W.H.O.'

PETER PIOT, Professor Of Global Health
The pilots were in a foul mood. They resented having to fly to the epidemic zone….When we landed, the plane came abruptly to a halt but the pilots never came out of the cabin. They didn’t even stop the engines. They wanted to take off again as soon as possible and avoid any contact with locals.
What Is Ebola? Quote From The 'FT' Magazine, May 02, 2014.

K.K. REBECCA LAI, Journalist
Convalescent therapy, which injects blood from recovered patients into sick patients, has had promising results. But there are major questions about its safety and efficacy in countries with inefficient health systems and a shortage of medical staff.
What Is Ebola? Quote From 'The New York Times', Oct. 23, 2014.

EMMA POWELL, Journalist
Amy Childs [reality TV star] was filmed suggesting she thought Ebola was the name of an up-and-coming band.
What Is Ebola? Quote From The 'London Evening Standard', Nov. 11, 2014

ANDREW WITTY, CEO GlaxoSmithKline
We take our responsibilities very seriously to make sure that there is good access to our vaccines, even in countries which can't pay very much for it.
What Is Ebola? Quote From BBC News, Nov. 26, 2014.

NEW YORK TIMES
There are more than a dozen Ebola drugs in development.
What Is Ebola? Quote From 'The New York Times', Nov. 21, 2014.

MIRREN GIDDA, Journalist And Broadcaster
Many say they have been shunned by members of their communities - sometimes even by their own families - who refuse to believe they can be free of a disease that has killed so many.
What Is Ebola? Quote From BBC News Africa, Oct. 16, 2014.

EMMETT WILSON, Program Director, Face Africa
As long as it [Ebola] was far away in the rural areas, no one paid any attention. But when it came to Monrovia, all of a sudden the minsters realised that they could catch it.
What Is Ebola? Quote From 'Time' Magazine', Oct. 13, 2014.

MIRREN GIDDA, Journalist And Broadcaster
Many say they have been shunned by members of their communities - sometimes even by their own families - who refuse to believe they can be free of a disease that has killed so many.
What Is Ebola? Quote From BBC News Africa, Oct. 16, 2014.

PETER PIOT, Professor Of Global Health
It took 1,000 deaths and five months before this was declared a public health emergency.
What Is Ebola? Quote From The 'FT' Magazine, May 02, 2014.

ARYN BAKER, Journalist
Before the crisis, Liberia had less than one doctor per 100,000 residents, compared with 77 in South Africa and 245 in the US; but with Ebola’s outsize toll on health workers, that population has plummeted.
What Is Ebola? Quote From 'Time' Magazine', Oct. 13, 2014.

ANDREW HARDING, Journalist And Broadcaster
“Please. Please. Cure her. Cure her,” says Momo Sessey, pointing back towards his wife, Fatu Kanu, who is slumped on a wooden bench, coughing.
What Is Ebola? Quote From BBC News Africa, Nov. 04, 2014.

MICHAEL T. OSTERHOLM, Director, Center For Infectious Disease Research
Richard Preston’s 1994 best seller “The Hot Zone” chronicled a 1989 outbreak of a different strain, Ebola Reston virus, among monkeys at a quarantine station near Washington. The virus was transmitted through breathing, and the outbreak ended only when all the monkeys were euthanized.
What Is Ebola? Quote From 'New York Times, Sept. 11, 2014.

NEW YORK TIMES
Doctors Without Borders has sent 700 doctors and aid workers from around the world to Ebola-stricken countries.
What Is Ebola? Quote From 'New York Times', Nov. 21, 2014.

NINA PHAM, Nurse
Nursing is a calling. It’s such a rewarding career and it’s just in our personalities and in our nature to help whoever needs help.
What Is Ebola? Quote From Today.com, Nov. 26, 2014.

RONA AMBROSE, Minister Of Health, Canada
Today, I'm issuing a call to action to Canadian health-care workers to travel to West Africa to care for Ebola patients in Ebola treatment centres in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea.
What Is Ebola? Quote From CBC News, Nov. 27, 2014.

ARYN BAKER, Journalist
Health clinics and hospitals across the country fear infection, and as a result, once manageable illnesses — such as diarrhoea, hypertension and diabetes — have become death sentences.
What Is Ebola? Quote From 'Time' Magazine', Oct. 13, 2014.

MICHAEL T. OSTERHOLM, Director, Center For Infectious Disease Research
The current Ebola virus’s hyper-evolution is unprecedented; there has been more human-to-human transmission in the past four months than most likely occurred in the last 500 to 1,000 years.
What Is Ebola? Quote From The New York Times, Sept. 11, 2014.

PETER PIOT, Professor Of Global Health
The Buffalo plane was overloaded, as well as badly loaded, and the pilots took off straight into a formidable tropical storm. We touched the top of some trees and before reaching cruising altitude the plane dived for what felt like a few hundred metres. There were no seat belts and we were hit by heavy flying boxes. Eventually we made it safely to Kinshasa but my legs were trembling when we got out of the plane. For me, flying had been more dangerous than caring for patients or handling virus samples.
What Is Ebola? Quote From The 'FT' Magazine, May 02, 2014.

WILL POOLEY, Nurse
I don’t want Sierra Leone just to be Ebola in my mind for ever, because it’s such a beautiful place and such nice people. I’d like to just get out there and see it. But that’s a long, long way away.
What Is Ebola? Quote From 'The Guardian', Nov. 11, 2014.

ASHOKA MUKPO, Journalist
I’m thankful for all the brave men and women in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone who put their lives at risk to deal with this epidemic. They’re the real heroes.
What Is Ebola? Quote From Today.com, Nov. 26, 2014.

PETER PIOT, Professor Of Global Health
As long as health services are inadequate, there will be occasional outbreaks of Ebola in parts of Africa where the virus is hiding in some animal.
What Is Ebola? Quote From The 'FT' Magazine, May 02, 2014.

ARYN BAKER, Journalist
Arriving too late was a bad mistake. Leaving too early, before those systems are firmly in place, would be harder to forgive.
What Is Ebola? Quote From 'Time' Magazine', Oct. 13, 2014.

MARK DOYLE, Journalist And Broadcaster
At the clearance site, near a rubbish tip, car after car was arriving with bodies, and several hundred workers were digging graves.
What Is Ebola? Quote From BBC News Africa, Dec. 01, 2014.

ISAAC BAYOH, Volunteer Ebola Worker, Sierra Leone
Every day in our life is like the last. We don’t know when we are going to get a call saying a friend, brother, sister, father, mother or neighbour that we have shared so many great memories with is positive, or has died. [We] don’t know when the fever, the headache will start. Our life is full with worries, the trust we used to have is fading out, because with Ebola you can’t trust anyone – not even your very self-confidence.
What Is Ebola? Quote From 'The Guardian, Nov. 29, 2014.

BILL GATES, Microsoft Founder And Philanthropist
Almost certainly more people are dying of non-Ebola diseases than are dying of Ebola. So it would be worth stopping the Ebola epidemic if the only benefit was that it put the health system back in place.
What Is Ebola? Quote From 'The Guardian', Oct. 03, 2014.

BARACK OBAMA, President, United States Of America
The money's running out. We cannot beat Ebola without more funding. If we want other countries to step up, we are going to have to lead the way.
What Is Ebola? Quote From National Institutes Of Health, Dec. 02, 2014.

ANGELINA JOLIE, Actor And UN Ambassador
I would say there are many countries in the world that could do more.
What Is Ebola? Quote From Nationmultimedia, Nov. 18, 2014.

GENEVIEVE NNAJI, Actor
As long as it remains anywhere in Africa, we are all at risk.
What Is Ebola? Quote From Allafrica.com, Nov. 2014.

OMOTOLA JALADE-EKEINDE, Actor
Just when the world has begun to pay attention to Africa as a destination for rapid growth and investment, we cannot allow Ebola to define the narrative.
What Is Ebola? Quote From Allafrica.com, Nov. 2014.