Pregnancy and Ebola

January 30, 2015 Melissa Pracht

MSF has opened a new maternity unit for pregnant women with Ebola—or those suspected of having Ebola—within an Ebola treatment center in Sierra Leone.

“Before this outbreak, all we really knew about pregnancy and Ebola was that usually the women die either while pregnant or else during the birth. As Ebola is a hemorrhagic fever, once a woman goes into labor, she will most likely bleed to death.”

Photo by Fabio Basone/MSF

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