Mohammed Conteh, student and Ebola vaccine trial participant

• 10 May 2016
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  <article> <h1> <span>Mohammed Conteh, student and Ebola vaccine trial participant</span> </h1> <ul> <li> <b>10 May 2016</b> </li> </ul> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <article id="post-230" class="module single-post-module post-230 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-people tag-ebola tag-global-health tag-medicine tag-sierra-leone tag-vaccineportrait et-has-post-format-content et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"> <div> <div> <p><b></b>“The time of Ebola was very horrible. For us it was as bad as being at war. We saw people we knew taken away in the ambulances and it made us very scared.</p> <p>I was very fearful because I was told that I was going to be injected with Ebola. I wasn’t confident but my Uncle had already taken the vaccine and this gave me courage. In the end I decided to have it because I thought it was better than falling sick with Ebola.</p> <p>My hope now is that nothing like this will happen to us again. I hope through the power of vaccines we are protected from this disease and Sierra Leone can have a brighter future.”</p> <p><i>Photo: Gavi/Kate Holt.</i></p> </div> </div> <input type="hidden" id="post_id" value="230"> </article> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <p> <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.gavi.org/mohammed-conteh-student-and-ebola-vaccine-trial">Original article</a> </p><p>This article was originally published on <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.gavi.org/vaccineswork">VaccinesWork</a> </p><script>(function(w,d,s,l,i){w[l]=w[l]||[];w[l].push({'gtm.start': new Date().getTime(),event:'gtm.js'});var f=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0], j=d.createElement(s),dl=l!='dataLayer'?'&l='+l:'';j.async=true;j.src= 'https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js?id='+i+dl;f.parentNode.insertBefore(j,f); })(window,document,'script','dataLayer','GTM-M7H54VD');</script><noscript><iframe src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/ns.html?id=GTM-M7H54VD" height="0" width="0" style="display:none;visibility:hidden"></iframe></noscript></article>

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