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Ebola claims parents' lives in West Africa

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SLUG: EBOLA LIBERIA ORPHANS
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ONE AMERICA NEWS NETWORK, OCT. 2014




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THOUSANDS OF CHILDREN IN WEST AFRICA ARE LOSING THEIR PARENTS… BECAUSE OF THE EBOLA OUTBREAK. 
OFFICIALS SAY THE NUMBER OF ORPHANS IS EXPECTED TO RISE IN THE COMING MONTHS... AS THEY STRUGGLE TO CONTAIN THE THREAT.
ONE AMERICA'S DONNA P. CRILLY REPORTS ON THE GROWING NUMBER OF PARENTLESS CHILDREN... WHO ARE BEING SHUNNED BY THEIR COMMUNITIES. 


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< AS THE EBOLA OUTBREAK CONTINUES TO RAVAGE WEST AFRICA... IT LEAVES BEHIND THOUSANDS OF ORPHANED CHILDREN... WHOSE PARENTS DIED OF THE VIRUS. 
MANY ORPHANS ARE LEFT WITH NO OPTIONS... AS RELATIVES TURN THEM AWAY OUT OF FEAR THEY COULD BE CARRYING THE DISEASE. 
SARAH CROWE.... THE CRISIS COMMUNICATIONS CHIEF OF THE UNITED NATIONS CHILDREN'S FUND SAYS... NOT ONLY IS THE OUTBREAK TEARING FAMILIES APART... IT'S ALSO TAKING A PSYCHOLOGICAL TOLL. 
{ SOT, SARAH CROWE SAYING:} 
''Children are deeply distressed from having seen things that even adults find difficult to understand. People in astronaut suits, looking like crop sprayers, coming to take sick people away, or their parents, even worse.” 
CROWE WARNED THAT THE NUMBER OF OPRHANS IN THE WORST-HIT COUNTRIES IS RISING.THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION ESTIMATES THE VIRUS HAS LEFT ABOUT FIVE-THOUSAND CHILDREN ORPHANED SO FAR. 
WITH ABOUT EIGHT-POINT-FIVE-MILLION YOUNG PEOPLE LIVING IN AFFECTED AREAS... AND THE NUMBER OF CASES EXPECTED TO CLIMB TO ABOUT 10-THOUSAND A WEEK... OFFICIALS SAY EBOLA IS CHANGING THE WAY PEOPLE THERE VIEW DEATH. 
{ SOT, SARAH CROWE SAYING:} 
''The way in which Ebola has affected people is so profound, because it's changed the way they live their lives; it's changed the way they mourn their dead; and it's changed the way people die. It's a terribly undignified death." 
CROWE SAYS AID AGENCIES NEED MORE SUPPORT BY THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY... TO FIGHT AGAINST THE VIRUS. 
THE U-N HAS BEGUN TRAINING SURVIVORS OF THE OUTBREAK IN SIERRA LEONE AND LIBERIA... TO HELP TREAT NEW VICTIMS. 
CROWE ADDED THAT KEEPING AHEAD OF THE EPIDEMIC WILL BE TOUGH... BUT IT CAN BE DONE. 
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“The only way to stop Ebola spreading is to support the efforts on the ground. We cannot be crushed by this disease and we will not. We are doing everything we can to get ahead of it." 
DONNA P. CRILLY... ONE AMERICA NEWS. > 

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