In the Shadow of Ebola<\/i> is the gripping story of a Liberian family kept apart by the Ebola outbreak in a nation still reeling from the chaos of civil war.<\/p>\n
We follow the struggle of Emmanuel Urey and his family, living divided between the U.S., where Emmanuel is on scholarship at the University of Wisconsin, and Liberia. As the Ebola crisis unfolds, Emmanuel\u2019s loved ones remain isolated at their home in Monrovia, where the government has shut down, schools and markets have closed, and food prices keep rising.<\/p>\n
With fourteen years of civil war throughout the 1990s and early 2000s still a fresh memory, many citizens find themselves distrustful of the Liberian government\u2019s response to the outbreak, which initially involves quarantines and curfews violently enforced by the military. Emmanuel races against the spreading virus and mounting civil unrest to evacuate his family as the death toll climbs and international aid remains scarce.<\/p>\n
In the Shadow of Ebola<\/i> peels back the shroud to reveal what it was like on the streets of a capital caught unprepared to battle an outbreak of this magnitude.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Follow the struggle of one family during the peak of last year’s Ebola outbreak in their native Liberia, where the government has shut down, schools and markets have closed, and food prices keep rising.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":8936,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"topic":[1225],"class_list":["post-324","films","type-films","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","topic-politics-and-government"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n