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ond-oldest son. “This one, you can’t
a closed coffin. Though the funeral hall
even know where to go.”
could hold 100 people, only about 20
“Ebola
is
a
disease
that
eliminates
The burial, one of countless unlisted deaths
— three of Africa’s
poorest and most fragile
came, mostly workers from the clinic
families,” he added. “It makes you
in the deadliest Ebola outbreak in
history,
was
Ebola’sand
effects
thethe
region,
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friendson
from
father’sin
days
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young
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your family,
apparently
you get in conmember
came.
tact
with
it.
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makes
you
go
far
away
man on the cusp of celebrity. A rising star in
its societies together, could be long-term and
from your family.”
Liberia’s top basketball league, Kaizer,
22,
had
Today, Capitol Hill’sfar-reaching.
dirt paths snake
Shared Denial and Death
dreamed of making it to the Losaround
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houses
roofs as help increases from the Unitby Kaizer’s
held down
by heavy rocks.
To theand
east,other Overwhelmed
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shooting
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nations, many
victimsillness,
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the
Temple
of
Justice
peeks
above
the
guard, Kobe Bryant. His Facebook profile, up- region are still being
treated within the family, a
her family in Capitol Hill. As day broke,
palm trees. The president’s Executive
dated just three weeks before hisMansion
death on
Aug.
place
of
succor
—
and
a font of learned
contagion.
the neighbors
that an ailing
is a quick walk to the south.
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in overnight.
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entire
family
apart,”
said
who knew that Kaizer’s father had died,
a white star in a blue box — can easily
man’s self-assuredness.
the Rev.
James Narmah,
a Pentecostal
lived in close
quarters andminister
shared a well
be mistaken for the American
flag.
A proper burial surely would For
have
who knows
“That’s what’s hapwithfamily.
the Doryens.
the drawn
Doryens, postwar
Liberia Kaizer’s
led
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lives.
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they
hundreds of people — teammates,
friends,
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right
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bringing
lot of
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got
their
water
from
aging,
unsaniand members of his large family, for whom sions, a lot of hatred,
inside families and inside
demption and other health facilities,
tary wells. But because they had propKaizer was an enduring point erty
of in
pride.
communities,
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Hill, they
were better offeverywhere.”
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most, with
this strange, horrific disease called
newsteady jobs as gas sta- mained deeply skeptical of Ebola’s very
existence,
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attendants,
cafeteria
A Battle-Tested
Family suspicious of government
to this part of Africa, had already
dis-government
corruption. The government slogan —
workers, cellphone-card salesmen and
Kaizer’s maternal
grandparents,
mantling his unusually tight family,
“Ebola Is
Real,” written onJoseph
billboards
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traders.
and wartime,
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sons reinforced
and five the
fear, anger and ultimately death to
the
and posters
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Just
as people
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popular Liberia’s
belief that itcivil
was not.
Doryens pulled together
during peacedaughters.
All survived
war from
who cherished him.
Still, enough deaths had occurred in
time. The children built separate houses
one even by the standards
Ebola is a family disease, Liberians
are re- 1989 to 2003, a brutal
the capital that, for many, any illness
near their parents and tore down the
that era. caused suspicion of Ebola.
minded continually in Sunday sermons. The of African wars ofimmediately
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family around
there,
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thehadfighting
started,
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were
getting
afraid,”
said
Teddy
Dowee,
when rebels tried to oust the
fight the virus, the more they
21, a friend of Kaizer’s and the Doryen
military
Joseph Doseem to fall apart.
clan. “Idictatorship,
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people
agriculture ministry and then for
had survived Liberia’s 14-year
outside an affected family, like the
a rich
Ghanaian businessman.
civil war, growing stronger as
Doryens’ neighbors, were often better
After
businessman
fled them.
the
it united against poverty, rapaablethe
to grasp
the reality around
Those inside
family
often
war, Joseph
Doryenthe
began
growcious rulers and indifferent govwrapped
themselves
in
layers
of
denial,
ing potato greens in his Monroernments. So when Kaizer got
as impermeable as the protective suits
viaworn
neighborhood,
Hill. desick, his mother, Mamie Doryen,
by health care Capitol
workers. They
Thenied
children
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wife to
did what the Doryens had alEbola’shelped,
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in the
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ostracized
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the crop
a local market.
ways done, turning to her family
vince themselves that they could tend
Until Joseph Doryen died
to help with her ailing son.
Kaizer Dour, 22, was a promthree
ago, contributed
the old couple
Kaizer, infected by his father, ising basketball player.
Clairyears
MacDougall
reporting.
could often be seen strolling or
soon passed the virus to two
aunts. In all, seven members from three genera- sitting together under the mango tree behind
their home. Their 10 children were all “same
tions died in quick succession. His mother, the
family’s dominant figure, survived. But blamed father, same mother,” a rarity in a large family
for the calamity, she went into hiding, a pariah of that generation.
They were also comparatively fortunate, esin her family’s hour of greatest need. The famcaping the rockets that frequently rained on Capily’s center could not hold.
itol Hill, destroying houses and killing residents.
“Ebola was like a bomb,” one of Kaizer’s
Like its American model in Washington, the
uncles said.
This destruction of families is the central neighborhood derives its name from the nearby
tragedy of the epidemic. On a continent with Capitol Building — one of the many ties between
many weak states, the extended family is Af- the United States and Liberia, a country foundrica’s most important institution by far. That ed by freed American slaves in 1822. But being
is especially true in the nations ravaged by the next to Liberia’s seat of government made the
neighborhood a frequent target.
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Not even the war, however, was as bad as
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“Even when we were fighting war at that
time, you know the safe place to go,” said Anthony Doryen, 39, the second-oldest son. “This
one, you can’t even know where to go.”
“Ebola is a disease that eliminates families,” he added. “It makes you afraid because
when you get around your family, apparently
you get in contact with it. It makes you go far
away from your family.”
Today, Capitol Hill’s dirt paths snake
around houses with corrugated roofs held
down by heavy rocks. To the east, the Temple
of Justice peeks above the palm trees. The
president’s Executive Mansion is a quick walk
to the south. The Liberian flag outside government buildings — red and white stripes, with
a white star in a blue box — can easily be mistaken for the American flag.
For the Doryens, postwar Liberia led to
better lives. Like most residents, they still
got their water from aging, unsanitary wells.
But because they had property in Capitol Hill,
they were better off than most, with steady
jobs as gas station attendants, government
cafeteria workers, cellphone-card salesmen
and market traders.
Just as they had during wartime, the Doryens pulled together during peacetime. The
children built separate houses near their parents and tore down the flimsy old family home,
pooling their savings to build an eight-room
concrete dwelling. It offered stability, cohesion
— and a refuge for an ailing Kaizer.
A Father on Ebola’s Front Line
For most West Africans infected during
the outbreak, the virus was transmitted quietly, through tender acts of love and kindness, at
home where the sick were taken care of, or at a
funeral where the dead were tended to.
But for Kaizer’s father, Edwin Dour, Ebola
came violently on the night of June 25 after a
gravely ill man — Patient Zero to the Doryen
family — was brought to the beleaguered government-run clinic where Kaizer’s father was
the chief administrator.
Six of 29 employees at the clinic died within a month of Ebola’s arrival. Kaizer’s father,
known for never turning away patients, became
infected, too, passing the virus to his son in a
pattern seen across the city. The sick brought
Ebola to defenseless health centers that in turn
often helped spread the virus.
Despite the money that the United States
and other governments had funneled into Liberia’s health care system in recent years, health
centers quickly crumpled. The 16-year-old girl
who had brought the disease from Sierra Leone
to Monrovia died in the state-run Redemption
Hospital on May 25. A doctor and five nurses
there, working without gloves or the basics of
infection control, died in rapid succession.
Though Redemption often did not have
running water, it was one of the biggest medical centers in Liberia. So after it was closed in a
panic in June, the sick scattered to nearby clinics, including the one managed by Kaizer’s father. They were even less prepared to deal with
Ebola’s onslaught.
On June 25, a yellow taxi dropped off a
young man in front of the clinic’s gate. The patient, a church caretaker, had apparently become infected when an old woman with Ebola
was brought in for prayers. By the time the
caretaker showed up at Kaizer’s father’s clinic,
he was exhibiting the full-blown symptoms of
late-stage Ebola: vomiting, diarrhea and — a
peculiar sign of Ebola — uncontrollable hiccups.
Around 10 p.m., the sick man became violent and confused. “He was fighting — unstable
— he was just going up and down, coming down
on the bed, turning this way, that way,” said the
physician assistant on duty, Moses Safa.
The guard held the man down. “Then he
gave up the ghost,” Mr. Safa said.
The guard himself would soon die of Ebola,
though not before transmitting it to Kaizer’s father. The clinic’s medical staff, terrified by the
deaths at the state hospital, offered the ailing
guard minimal care. Kaizer’s father was not authorized to provide care, but he volunteered to
put the guard on an intravenous drip — and was
infected in the process.
Kaizer’s father tested positive for Ebola,
but the government did not tell his family. In
theory, workers are supposed to inform families of test results; in practice, few tests have
been carried out and the results rarely provided — another systematic failure that has contributed to Ebola’s spread.
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it was one often
of thedid not
Redemption
a
ill
beUnited
dthe
in place
the
state-run of
Rents
had
funtal on
May
25.biggest
A doctor
medical
centers
in
Liberia.
So not
have
running
water,
it
was
one
of the
Though
Redemption
often
did
there,system
working
on.
ace
of without
ly,
care
sics
infection control,
tersofquickly
after
it
was
closed
in
a
panic
in
June,
the
biggest
medical
centers
in
Liberia.
So
have
running
water,
it
was
one
of
the
cession.
girl
who
had
ly Leone
ng
family,
mption often did not
ierra
ater, it was one
of the
sick
scattered
to
nearby
clinics,
includafter
it
was
closed
in
a
panic
in
June,
the
biggest
medical
centers
in
Liberia.
So
ate-run
Rea
ire
family
amily,
centers in Liberia. So
25.
doctor
d inAa panic
in June, the
ing
the one
managed
father.
sick
scattered
toaKaizer’s
nearby
includit was
closed by
in
panic inclinics,
June, the
king
without
oamily
nearby
clinics,
includizNarmah,
aafter
aged
by Kaizer’s father.
tion control,
n less prepared
to deal
They
were
even
less
prepared
to
deal
ing
the
one
managed
by
Kaizer’s
father.
sick
scattered
to
nearby
clinics,
includng
ows
mah,
aKaizlaught.
en did not
taxi dropped
off
Ebola’s
onslaught.
They
were
even
less
prepared
to
deal
ing
the
one
managed
by
Kaizer’s
father.
syellow
one of
the with
vihappening
ront
of the clinic’s gate.
KaizMark Jerry, top, and his daughter Princess contracted
Liberia.
So had apurch
caretaker,
Ebola. Mr. Jerry is the only person in the Doryen family
ininfected
June, the
with
Ebola’s
onslaught.
They
were
even
less
prepared
to
deal
June
25,
a
yellow
taxi
dropped
off
elot
when
anOn
old
nd
of
diviening
to
have
gotten
the
virus
and
survived.
His
wife,
Edwina
nics,
includola was
brought in for
middle, was taken by a burial team. Lester Mortimefather.
the a
caretaker
with Ebola’s
onslaught.
young
man
in
front
ofaabove,
the
clinic’s
OnDoryen,
June
25,right
yellow
taxi
off
Mark Jerry, top, and his daughter Princess contracted
ris,
second
from
mourning
the
lossgate.
ofdropped
his
milies
fezer’s
diviizer’s
father’s
clinic, he
ared
to
deal and
daughter, Esther, at right a week before dying.
he full-blown symptoms
The
patient,
a
church
caretaker,
had
apa
young
man
in
front
of
the
clinic’s
gate.
On
June
25,
a
yellow
taxi
dropped
off
Mark
and
his daughter
Princess
contracted
ola:
vomiting,
diarrhea
ere.”
es
andoff
Mark Jerry, top, and his daughter Princess contracted
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apa
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front
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clinic’s
gate.
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Jerry,
top,
and
his
daughter
Princess
contracted
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Jerry,
top,
and
his
daughter
Princess
contracted
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Jerry
is
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only
person
in
the
Doryen
family
ker,
had
apm., the sick man became
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contracted
Ebola.
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Jerry
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only
person
in
the
Doryen
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Ebola.
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is the only
person
in
thethe
Doryen24.
family
to
have
gotten
the
virus
and
survived.
His
wife,
Edwina
father,
Lester,
arrived
minutes
after
she
center.
She died there the next day, on
to
a
sick
loved
one.
as
well.
Two
weeks
later,
her
husband,
who
had
held
him
up
in
church,
died
on
—
Tina,
20,
and
Edwina,
With
Ebola
could
no
longer
hide
from
her,
she
told
when
an old
used. “He
was
fighting
to have
gotten
the
virus
andinsurvived.
wife, in
Edwina
woman
with
Ebola
was
brought
fortheapparently
infected
when
an
old
The
patient,
abecome
church
caretaker,
had
was put inside the ambulance.
brown mattress on a filthy floor, su
Mark Jerry, sat slumped outside an
the same day, Aug. 27, less than three
mind,
the His
reverend
instructed
him, as
those gathered around him
They
often
had no
choice:
Throughought
in going
for up and Mark
e was just
Ebola.
Mr.
Jerry
is
the
only
person
in
the
Doryen
family
Jerry,
top,
and
his
daughter
Princess
contracted
Ebola.
Mr.
Jerry
is
the
only
person
in
the
Doryen
family
to
have
gotten
virus
and
survived.
His
wife,
Edwina
rounded by body fluids.
She was takenby
to an Ebola
treatment
Ebola
treatment center.
Their daughter
weeks aftermiddle,
he did. Kaizer’s grandmothprayed loudly in tongues.
aunts,
both team.
members
of hisMorchurch,
to survived.
out
the Ebola
hothave
zone,
the chronic
lack by
Doryen,
middle,
was
taken
a burial
Lester
he
Doryen
family
to
gotten
virus
and
His wife,
Edwina
Doryen,
was center.
taken
a burial
team.
Lester
Morown
on the
bed, turning
e
caretaker
Her father and uncle visited and
A rage built within him. All the su
Princess sat to his right, resting her
er and a cousin were visibly sick, too.
staythe
at
the was
backcaretaker
with
of treatment
beds
for
months
forced
reached for his neck.
By
the
woman
with
Ebola
brought
inAbruptly,
forKaizer
parently
become
infected
when
an old
ris,
second
from time
right
above,
mourning
theKaizer.
loss of his
ay,”clinic,
said the
physician
Jor’s
he prayers.
thought
she was doing
better. survived.
fering — all the pointless deaths in th
forehead against
the wall.
Both were too
Some
ofhave
Kaizer’s uncles
had fled Capitolthe
families to Mr.
care for theJerry
sick at home. is the
“He had
no strength,”
Mr. Narmah in “He
said he
saw the woman, thefamily
spirto
gotten
virus
and
His
wife,
Edwina
Ebola.
only
person
the
Doryen
y,
Moses
Safa.
to
have
gotten
the
virus
and
survived.
His
wife,
Edwina
Doryen,
middle,
taken
by
a
burial
team.
Lester
Mordaughter,
Esther,
at
right
acouldn’t
week talk.”
before
dying.
nHis
symptoms
family — stemmed
from a betrayal, h
weak
even to drink
water.
Hill.
The
remaining Doryens
gathered right
Beforewas
visiting
again,
Lester
looked
wife,
Edwina
Doryen,
middle,
was
taken
by
a
burial
team.
Lester
Morris,
second
from
above,
mourning
the
loss
of
his
said.
“He
it,
standing
over
him,
choking
him,”
said
And
so
Mamie
denied
that
Ebola
had
d the man down.
“Then
showed
up
at
Kaizer’s
father’s
clinic,
he
prayers.
By
the
time
the
caretaker
woman
with
Ebola
was
brought
in
for
said: Mamie’s refusal to admit wha
in a daze.
wistfully at a Christmas card from last
For days, Mark had maintained his
ng,
diarrhea
ns
rents,
JoRose
Mombo,
a
church
member
there.
killed
her
former
husband,
Edwin
Dour,
The
congregation
gathered
around
rmself
she
center.
She
died
there
theris,
next
day, on
ataken
host,”
Mr. Safa said. as well. Two weeks later, her husband,
tol
Hill
spread
to Mamie’s
neighbors
was
wrongof
with Kaizer.
“It was a scene
to
behold,”
said the was
year.
In it,
wearing
a redby
dress
withburial
a
denials
about
the family Lester
illnesses.
He loss
Doryen,
middle,
a
team.
Mor“He was
fighting.”
have
the
virus
and
His
wife,
Edwina
and
sickened gotten
Kaizer.
Instead, they
had was
Kaizer fortaken
a prayer.
Mr. survived.
Narmah
poured
la — would
unconmiddle,
by
a
burial
team.
Lester
Morsecond
from
right
above,
mourning
the
his
soon
dieto
of Doryen,
eam.
Lester
Morris,
second
from
right
above,
mourning
the
loss
of
his
daughter,
Esther,
at
right
a
week
before
dying.
Rev.
Alvin
Attah,
who
has
known
the
big
white
ribbon,
Esther
stands
against
was
sick,
too,
but
told
friends
he
had
tyShe
had
at
least
suspected
the truth
both been
poisoned,
she
insisted,
telling
was
exhibiting
the
full-blown
symptoms
showed
up
at
Kaizer’s
clinic,
he
anointing oilthe
on father’s
Kaizer’s
head. He told
Kaizer,
his eyes wide open, burst into
prayers.
By
the
time
caretaker
bedman
five
sons
s,before
Joot
transmitting
it
mattress
on
adecades.
filthy
floor,
surnear
the
swamp,
they
grew
alarmed.
Mark
Jerry,
sat
outside
antears,
family for
At the pastor’s
urgan
idealized American
backdrop of
a cophoid and switched off
his cellphone.
AfMark said.
Once Edwina became symp
her family
of a mysterious
woman slumped
in
the members to stretch
their arms tospatbrown
out something and
died.
became
er. The
clinic’s medical
ris,
second
from
right
above,
mourning
the
loss
of
his
Doryen,
middle,
was
taken
by
a
burial
team.
Lester
ing, Kaizer’s
grandmother
boardeddaughter,
an
lonial house,
a green
lawn and a white
ter
Princess fella
ill, things
changed.
tomatic,
Kaizer’s mother, the progenito
to
a showed
sick black
loved
one.his
—the
Tina,
20,
and
24.
With
Ebola
could
no longer
hide
her,Morshe of
told his
ris,
second
from
right
above,
mourning
the
terrorizing
Kaizer
in his
sleep.
ward
Kaizer
butEdwina,
toEsther,
not
touch
him.
Esther,
at
right
week
before
dying.
It
happened
just
as
his from
ownloss
father
ning
the
loss
of
daughter,
at
right
a
week
before
dying.
of
late-stage
Ebola:
vomiting,
diarrhea
was
exhibiting
full-blown
symptoms
up
at
Kaizer’s
father’s
clinic,
he
y
the
deaths
at
the
state
was
fighting
tal
ved
Libeement
sons
ambulance to a treatment center.
picket fence.
“I’m
convincedburied
it was Ebola,” Kaizer,
Mark
of the poisoning
narrative, offered
Somehad
of those
closest Throughto Mamie
ac- in mind,
beingas
laid
to rest.
Duringby
the
fuKaizer’s
tookdaughter
noinstructed
such precauthose
gathered
around
him fluids.
thefamily
reverend
the washim,
They often
no choice:
rounded
body
Mr. Mombo,
who
reached
Ebola
treatment
center.
Their
the ailing
guard minioing
up and
Blamed for bringing Ebola to Capitol
said.
suspicious warning.
Overnight, her uncle received a call
ceptedhot
the
poisoning
story,
a wide- aunts,
service
for
Kaizer’s
father, of
the his
tions.both
To Martha
Doryen,
29,church,
anotherto neral
prayed
loudly
in
tongues.
members
of his
outau-the ris,
zone,
the chronic
lack
r’s father
was
not
daughter,
Esther,
at Esther
right
before
second
from
right
above,
mourning
the
loss
daughter,
Esther,
at
right
aAbruptly,
week
before
dying.
bed,
turning
and
—Ebola
aof
peculiar
sign
of
Ebola
—
unconlate-stage
Ebola:
vomiting,
diarrhea
was
exhibiting
the
full-blown
symptoms
Hill, Kaizer’s mother could
not return to
It a
wasweek
mid-September,
and Liberia dying.
from a friend
inside the center.
“She said, ‘Mark, the way you’re tak
spread
belief
in
Liberia.
They
had reascattered
attendees
learned
that Kaizer
aunt,
Kaizer
the
kid nephew
who
week
before
dying.
an
3,
a
brutal
Libestay
at the
backwas
with
Kaizer.
ofPrincess
treatment
beds
forsat
months
forced
Kaizer
reached
for
his neck.within
ide
care,
but
he volunand
A
rage
built
him.
All
the
sufMamie
by
phone
after
many
attempts.
to
his
right,
resting
her
her family home.
She wandered
toward
stood
on a precipice.
Monrovia
had behad
died. He did not
tell Lester. On the
ing
care of Edwina, you got to get chlo
e
physician
son
to
put
faith
in
her.
She
was
the
famhad
died
as
well.
had
always
asked
her
for
a
treat
or
he guard on an families
intracare
forathe
sick of
at about
“He had no strength,” Mr. Narmah
“He said he was
sawstill
theincapable
woman,ofthe spir- her church half a mile away and taxi ride there, Lester began to suspect come the focal point of the outbreak in rine water on the side, and when yo
a. was
anchor,
woman
40 whose
pocket
money.of
This Ebola
year, seeing
Kaizer
The government
trollable
hiccups.
and
—
ahome.
peculiar
sign
—
of ilytolate-stage
Ebola:
vomiting,
diarrhea
daughter,
Esther,
at
right
aunconweek
before
dying.
and
infected
in the
of
African
brutal
said.
“He
couldn’t
talk.”
it, standing
over
him,
choking
him,”
said pointless
And soreal
Mamie
thatbut
Ebola
knocked on the homes
of congregationinhisthe
West Africa.
Infections were doubling
brother was hiding “Why
something. By you
finish taking
care of her,
fering
—
all
the
deaths
running
place
toyou wash you
forehead
against
the
wall.
Both
were
too
namedenied
was
Yah
was had
always
play
basketball
for
the first
time — and
responding
in the
most
basic
ways,
in-his
own. “Then
rated
years
before,
Kaizer
helped
tend
to
ersearching
health
facilities,
was
paralyzed.
Manyfrom
Liberifor a place to
every two to three weeks.
the time they arrived in front of the cenhands,’” he recalled.
Rosecollecting
Mombo,
a church
member
there. members,
her
former
husband,
Dour,
congregation
around
called
Mamie
becauseEdwin
she acted
like a The
cluding
the
highly infectious
play so
well that a fangathered
handed him
$50
afa
said. positivekilled
er tested
for
trollable
hiccups.
and
—
a
peculiar
sign
of
Ebola
—
unconAround
10
p.m.,
the
sick
man
became
spend the night.
Mark and Princess were lucky to reter at 10:30 a.m., Lester was yelling at
“She acted very bad, my sister-in
frican
en
“Heof
was
and
Kaizer.
Instead,
they had water.
Kaizer
prayer.
Mr. Narmah
mothereven
to her younger
siblings.
bodies
thefighting.”
Ebola dead. —
So twostemmed
days
afterfor
theagame
— Martha
realizedpoured
with
family
from
a
betrayal,
he
place?”
Mr.
Mombo
asked
her.
“But
weak
to
drink
oked
overnment
did not
tellsickened
soon die of
“But they refused to let her in,” said
a sick
loved
one.
ceive treatment
at all. But while
his brother. —
LesterTina,
paced back20,
and and
Edwina,
24.Mark,With
cou
law; sheEbola
knew that her son had
the v
afterto
Kaizer’s
death,
stench
of his
So
the family
allowed
Kaizer
stay,
prideas
that
wasKaizer’s
“no small
player.”
poisoned,
she
insisted,
telling
anointing
oilheon
head.
He told
Kaizer,
his
eyesthe
wide
open,
burst
into
eory, workers
areboth
sup- been
dying
father.
But
has
been
the
case
for
thouremained
Ebola’s
very
ansmitting
it violent
Feliciaans
Koneh, a family
friend. “Every27, improved,of
Princess,
9, did not. She
forth, deeply
his eyes reddening. skeptical
rus
and she never educated us,” Mar
hiccups.
and
confused.
“He
was
fighting
Around
10tofamily
the
sick
man
seeping
outsomething
toward herand
neighsharing
one
room
withwoman
three
“They
weretoafraid
of Ebola,”
Marthabecame
her trollable
family
of
adays,
mysterious
in p.m.,
tears,
spat
out
died.
the
members
stretch
their
arms
to- corpse
ored,
families
ofwhen
test
results;
said:
Mamie’s
refusal
since
then,
her
phone
switched
off.”
last
For
Mark
had
maintained
his
ic’s
medical
body one.
was afraid.to
No oneadmit
knows where what
died
within
days.and is
“He’s weeping,”
said
a man nearby.
said. 24.
“To me,
she was wicked.
I don
bors, It
hishappened
mother
asked
one
of
them,
Jemembers
—
all of whom
saidKaizer
of the
church
members.
was my
to
a
sick
loved
—
Tina,
20,
Edwina,
With
Ebola
in
mind,
the
reverend
instructed
the
him
They
often
had
no
choice:
Throughhave
been carried
black
terrorizing
Kaizer
in hiswould
sleep.die.
ward
but to not
touch“It
him.
just
as
his
own
father
otests
a
sick
loved
one.
—
Tina,
20,
and
Edwina,
24.
With
Ebola
could
no
longer
hide
from
her,
she
told
she
went
after
that.”
After
being
discharged
with
a
letter
call
that
ignorance.
I
call
that
wick
“Maybe
somebody
dying?”
said
anat
the
state
rome
Mombo,
to
bury
her
son.
neighbors
demanded
that
thethe
sister’s
only
son.“He
Howup
can
Iwas
be
afraid? fighting
I
ults
rarely provided
— sands
— conunstable
—who
was
just
going
and
violent
and
confused.
Around
10
p.m.,
sick
man
became
have
died
during
this
of
government
corrupSome
ofThe
those
closest
tohe
Mamie
acwas
being
laidepidemic,
to rest. During
the fu- Kaizer.
Kaizer’s
family
took
no
such
precauer
y
dictatorwhen
“It’sexistence,
pathetic, you know, to see a fam-suspicious
that
he was “no longerin
infectious,”
Mark
edness.”
other.
guard
miniMr. Mombo
took precautions
against
was
with
Mamie
insisted
brief
phone
Doryens take
Kaizer away, threatening
ith
aaucan’t lie. I touched
him.”
denials
about
the
family
illnesses.
He
atic
failure
that hascepted
to
aofforwrong
sick
loved
one.
ina taxi
mind,
the
reverend
instructed
the
—
Tina,
20,
Edwina,
24.
With
Ebola
aunts,
both
members
ofatold
his
church,
toin- pra
They
often
had
no
choice:
Throughout
the
Ebola
hot
zone,
the
chronic
lack
thecall
poisoning
story,
a wideneral
service
Kaizer’s
father,
the
To Doryens’
Martha neighbors
Doryen,
29,in
another
ily just
fall
apart,”
she
said.
began and
working
for
Doctors
Without
“Brother,
you
gotta
be ahide
man,”
ick
one.
—
Tina,
20,
and
24.
With
Ebola
could
no
longer
from
her,
she
him,
as
those
gathered
around
him
the
reverend
instructed
the
They
often
had
no
choice:
ThroughEbola,
adding
$15Edwina,
his
own
money
to
to
the
authorities.
But
the
poisoning tions.
was
notloved
The
stepped
upmind,
d
Edwina,
24.
With
Ebola
could
no
longer
hide
from
her,
she
told
’s spread.
down,
coming
down
on
the
bed,
Borders. Once a denier of Ebola, he be—
unstable
—
he
was
just
up
and
violent
and
confused.
“He
was
fighting
driver said. “Be a man, yeah? Don’t be
spread
belief
in Liberia.
They
had room
realearned
that Kaizer
Kaizer
was
theturning
kidgoing
nephew
who
thescattered
$55
in American
currency
Kaizer’s
or
as
driver
story
gave
the
psychological
for aunt,
tatordemands
that
Kaizer
leave
Capitol
Hill
Adrift in Angerand
ut
voluner, hea
who
was in was
his the
terview
that
Kaizer
was
poisoned
ainst
sick,
too,
but
told
friends
he
had
tyShe
had
at
least
suspected
the
truth,
natural
inclination
to
care
for
aattendees
loved
one
tion.
The
government
slogan
—
“Ebola
Isinstructed
Real,”
came
anwith
evangelist.
crying.”
son
to put
in
her.
wasbetween
the
famaunts,
both
members
of
his church,
had
died
as
well.
in
mind,
the
reverend
the to
stay
atgathered
the
back
Kaizer.
hadas always
asked
her
for mind,
aaunts,
treat
or and
mother
had
given
him.out
He paid
fisherthe
Ebola
hot
zone,
the
chronic
lack
They
often
had
no
choice:
Throughof
treatment
beds
for
months
forced
A
hisfaith
relatives
— She
caught
their
Distance
and
Guilt
soon as possible.
The
Doryens
acquihim,
as
those
around
him
in
the
reverend
instructed
the
prayed
loudly
in
tongues.
both
members
of
his
church,
to
one.
—
Tina,
20,
Edwina,
24.
With
Ebola
ly
23.
his
parey
often
had
no
choice:
could
no
longer
hide
her,
she
told
nloved
an Because
intraut
the
Ebola
hot
zone,
the
chronic
lack
him,
as
those
gathered
around
him
reverend
instructed
the
The disappearance of Kaizer’s moth
Mark, a money
changer,
and Kaizer’s
Lester did not cry
inside thefrom
center
men $60
spent the
rest
chlorine,
love
him
and
fear
of
Ebola
— said
to pocket
ily anchor,
afor
woman
of the
about
40
whose
that
way,”
the
physician
down,
coming
down
on
the
bed,
turning
esced,
telling
Mamie
to take
her
son.
—way,
unstable
—
heThroughwas
just
going
up
and
money.
This
year,
seeing
Kaizer
Theand
government
wasonstill
incapable of
ed years
Kaizer
he
d
then
for
driver
ected
in before,
the this
Ebola is an insidious
disease. It turns
er quickly
set the him
Doryens adrift, leav
Aunt
Edwina,
a restaurant worker,
had
when told about his
daughter’s
death.
died
after
the
woman
in
black
told
a
cophoid
and
switched
off
his
cellphone.
AfMark
said.
Once
Edwina
became
sympa
spray
gun,
six
empty
rice
bags
to
sew
take
care
of
him.
realas
name
was Yah but
was chronic
alwayshis
play basketball
for theaunts,
first time
— and
responding
in the
most
basic
ways,
inhis dying
father. But
stay
at
the
back
with
Kaizer.
aunts,
both
members
of
his
church,
to
of
treatment
beds
for
months
forced
out
the
Ebola
hot
zone,
chronic
lack
families
to
care
for
the
sick
at
home.
“He
had
no
strength,”
Mr.
Narmah
“an
compassion
into to
athe
danger.
It on
turns
surwould
prove
undoing.
written
billboards
and
posters
—
merely
reprayed
loudly
in
tongues.
both
members
of
his
church,
ing
them
to
endure
one
loss
after
spent
years
saving
$900
to
build
their
stay
at
the
back
with
Kaizer.
him,
as
those
gathered
around
him
in
mind,
the
reverend
instructed
the
he
Ebola
hot
zone,
the
lack
He
said
nothing.
His
brother
asked
for
f
treatment
beds
for
months
forced
Abruptly,
Kaizer
reached
for
his
neck.
often
had
no
choice:
Throughtogether
as
a
burial
shroud
and
bottles
prayed
loudly
in
tongues.
embers
of
his
church,
to
Onethis
morning,
Tina
Doryen,
an aaunt play
for thousands
who
called
Mamie
because
she acted
like
cluding collecting the highly infectious vival into a haunting source of guilt.
so well
that
abed,
fan
handed
him
$50
on
duty,
Moses
Safa.
way,
that
way,”
said
the
physician
down,
coming
down
on
the
turning
‘There
Was
No
Family’
other without their central figure.
home, a simple structure steps away
the body for a proper funeral, or at least
positive
for assistant
ph
.ase
After
the
en
for
of Manpower.
tending
to Kaizer,
took
a bathill,
using things
a
he
was
“finished.”
white
ter
Princess
fell
changed.
tomatic,
Kaizer’s
mother,
the
g this epidemic,
themother
natto
her younger
siblings.
bodies
ofof
the
Ebola
dead.
So entwo days
after the game
— Martha
realized
with
Kaizer’s
cousin,
Esther,
5,progenitor
the daughFour ofMr.
Kaizer’s Narmah
aunts andit,
cousin
fromback
the
Doryen
house.
Heneck.
had
suspecta photograph.said.
Neither
was“He
possible.
stay
at
the
with
Kaizer.
families
to
care
for
the
sick
at
home.
treatment
beds
for
months
forced
“He
had
no
strength,”
couldn’t
talk.”
did
notfortell
s
And
so
Mamie
denied
that
Ebola
had
The
men
drank
the
gin
before
stay
at
the
back
with
Kaizer.
Kaizer
diedaunts,
the next
morning
in “He
his
bucket in
which
he had
previously
vomprayed
loudly
in
tongues.
eatment
beds
for
months
forced
both
members
of
his
church,
to
Abruptly,
Kaizer
reached
for
his
amilies
to
care
for
the
sick
at
home.
Ebola
hot
zone,
the
chronic
lack
had
no
strength,”
Mr.
Narmah
“He
said
he
saw
the
woman,
the
spirto
care
a loved
one
k
with
Kaizer.
Abruptly,
Kaizer
reached
for
his
neck.
ter
of
his
beloved
Aunt
Tina,
was
clearly
died
in
a
month.
Kaizer’s
grandmothe
ed
that
Kaizer
had
Ebola.
The
unease
after
Kaizer’s
death,
the
stench
of
his
On
Aug.
9,
Kaizer’s
father
was
to herrest
Sothis
theited.
family
allowed
Kaizer
to
stay,
that
he
was
“no Safa.
small
player.”
inforcedoffered
the
popular
The brothers went tobelief
Capitol Hill to that it was not.
assistant
on
Moses
way,
that
way,”
said
the
physician
The
guard
the
down.
tering
the room,laid
then again inside.
ers
supmother’s
home
next
to“Then
the
swamp. No
“If
that
Ebolaheld
want
to kill
me, duty,
let itman
inare
r,er
Joseph
the
undoing.
sick.
On the day Tina died, Esther’s
fa“Everybody
isstrength,”
carrying
my
name
“I’m
convinced
itpride
was
Ebola,”
Mark
the
poisoning
narrative,
died,
too, on Aug.
31. But the Doryen
felt by the Doryens’
neighbors
in Capiinform a
the Doryens. The
remaining
corpseof
seeping
outdotoward
neighsharing
one
room
with
family
“They
were
Ebola,”
Martha “Otherwise,
I couldn’t
it,” said
Mr.
one from
the afraid
family, of
except
his
grandkill
me,”
she said,
Mr.three
Dowee
recalled.
test
results;
families
toofbrief
care
for
thethedenied
sick
home.
said.
“He
couldn’t
talk.”
“He
had
no
Mr.
Narmah
izer’s
father
was
laid Mamie
to for
And
so
Mamie
that
Ebola
had
killed
her
former
husband,
Edwin
Dour,
The
congregation
gathered
around
ies
to
care
the
sick
at
home.
stay
at
the
back
with
Kaizer.
ther
faced
anguish
ofat
going
to
see it,
“He
had
no
strength,”
Mr.
Narmah
ment
beds
for
months
forced
Abruptly,
Kaizer
reached
for
his
neck.
said.
“He
couldn’t
talk.”
“He
said
he
saw
the
woman,
the
spirdid not
even
find out about her Ros
death fo
standing
over
him,
choking
him,”
said
tol
Hill
had
unsettled
him.
And
so
denied
that
Ebola
had
family
gathered
outside.
Martha
otol
strength,”
Mr.
Narmah
bors,
his
mother
asked
one
them,
Jemembers
—
all
of
whom
would
die.
“He
said
he
saw
the
woman,
the
spirsaid
of
the
church
members.
“It
was
my
Mombo,
who
later
delivered
the
mother,
went
there
to
help.
With
Kaizer’s
condition
worsening,
assistant
on
duty,
Moses
Safa.
pherd
Funeral
Home
in
been
carried
he
gave
up
the
ghost,”
Mr.
Safa
said.
The
guard
held“Wethe
man
down.
“Then
his ailing daughterStill,
in Capitol Hill —
but
greens
in
oseph
nearly
two
weeks.
Mamie, as the hea
But he had
blocked
out those
doubts
Doryen, Kaizer’sdeaths
aunt,
started wailing,had
Good
Funeral
Home
inAnd
closed
enough
occurred
in
the
around,”
Mamie
said.
“I
didn’t
do
anysuspicious
warning.
call
for
Kaizer.
“Iahad
toson.
drink
rome Mombo,
to bury
her
wereson.
angry
andcan
alsoIafraid,”
said
the Doryens
finally tookShepherd
him
Theat
neighbors
demanded
thatoutside
the — sister’s
only
How
be afraid?
I farewell
Though
the —
funeral said.
hall
provided
being
too afraid
to get
close
enough
to
of the
family, gave heraround
cellphone
as
when
Edwina
got
sick.
What
else could
said.
couldn’t
talk.”
throwing
her
hands
in the
air.
There
“He
killed
her
former
husband,
Edwin
Dour,
so
Mamie
denied
that
Ebola
had
and
sickened
Kaizer.
Instead,
they
had
The
congregation
gathered
Kaizer
for
achoking
prayer.
Mr.
Narmah
poured
said.
“He
couldn’t
talk.”
to
care
for
the
sick
at
home.
it,
standing
over
him,
him,”
said
d
so
Mamie
denied
that
Ebola
had
“He
had
no
strength,”
Mr.
Narmah
Rose
Mombo,
a“He
church
member
there.
illed
her
former
husband,
Edwin
Dour,
something
to give
me
more
power.”
“He
said
he
saw
the
woman,
the
spirThe
congregation
gathered
Kaizer’s
uncle,
Abraham
Keita.
totake
a nearby
church
that
was holding
a can’t
Mr.
Mombo
took
precautions
against
people,
only
about
20
Doryens
Kaizer
away,
threatening
lie.
I touched
him.”
dn’t
talk.”
it,
standing
over
him,
choking
him,”
said
comfort her. around
hat
concontact number when the ambulanc
he do but take care of her?
were no tears, but the sound echoed
he
gave
up
the
ghost,”
Mr.
Safa
said.
The
guard
held
the
man
down.
“Then
The
guard
himself
would
soon
die
of
fehas
d,
Capitol
ens
in
Heavy
rain
allowed
the
fishermen
to ‘Mark,
two-week
revival.
Mamie
continued
to insist
that
Kaizer
orkers
from
the to
clinic
thing.”
It
was
mid-September,
and
Liberia
Ebola,
adding
$15
of
his
own
money
to
sther
“She
said,
the
way
you’re
takcallcoffin.
the
authorities.
But
the
poisoning
The
Doryens’
neighbors
stepped
up
“She
tried
to
get
to
me,
but
I
stood
at
took
away
the
grandmother.
When Ma
“Edwina
and
I
were
like
one
person,”
throughout
Capitol
Hill.
Though
the
hall
could
hold
100
capital
that,
for
many,
any
illness
immediately
paddle
all
the
way
to aand
flooded
area
be-Kaizer’s
sickened
Kaizer.
Instead,
they
had
killed
her
former
husband,
Edwin
Dour,
both
been
poisoned,
she
insisted,
telling
did
not havefuneral
Ebola.
Perhaps
because
ofcongregation
Kaizer
for
a
prayer.
Mr.
Narmah
poured
The
congregation
gathered
around
It
was already
dark
and
the reverend,
anointing
oil
on
Kaizer’s
head.
He
told
K
mo
the
father’s
daysstory
as adenied
Rose
Mombo,
a
church
member
there.
d
her
former
husband,
Edwin
Dour,
said.
“He
couldn’t
talk.”
“He
was
fighting.”
The
gathered
around
nd
sickened
Kaizer.
Instead,
they
had
it,
standing
over
him,
choking
him,”
said
Mamie
that
Ebola
had
Kaizer
for
a
prayer.
Mr.
Narmah
poured
a
distance,”
said
her
father,
Lester
Morthe
$55
in
American
currency
gave
the
psychological
room
for
mie
disappeared,
health
officials
wer
he
said.
“I
would
bathe
her.
She
was
toidemands
that
Kaizer
leave
Capitol
Hill
With
no
body
to
bury,
Lester
could
Rose
Mombo,
a
church
member
there.
egation
gathered
was
inArmy.
hiswife
hind
the home
of
Kaizer’s mother. Tony
he
gave
up
the
ghost,”
Mr.
Safa
said.
Ebola,
though
not
before
itbeThe
guard
himself
would
soon
die
ofbasketball
her transmitting
assurances,
five church
members
Mr.
Narmah,
was
wrapping
up
a serNo
family
dberian
his
apitol
who hadgot
separated
from
Tina chlounable she
to contactaddthe Doryens.
leting
all day. I would
clean her, and
mother
had given
him.and
He
paid
fisher- ris, 27,you
not meet his traditional “Nobody
duties. Suddenhis
relatives
—hope
caught
between
their
should
blame
me,”
asaround
possible.
acquistood
aaround
precipice.
Monrovia
had
n
care
of
Edwina,
toher
get
usethe
his parKaba,
22, aing
player
friend
joined
her The
son’sDoryens
deathbed.
As
mon onon
when
the double doors of as soon
this year.
“I told
hershe
totold
go tosuspicion
Auntie
both
been
poisoned,
insisted,
sickened
Kaizer.
Instead,
they
had
her
family
of
a
mysterious
woman
in
anointing
oil
on
Kaizer’s
head.
He
told
Kaizer
for
a
prayer.
Mr.
Narmah
poured
the
members
to
stretch
their
arms
totear
Mamie’s
absence
stirred
fierce
dis
then
after
two,
three
minutes,
she
would
ly,Kaizer,
he telling
started
crying,
uncontrollably,
“He
was
fighting.”
men
$60and
and
the
rest
on
chlorine,
sickened
they
had
loveKaizer.
for
him church
and theInstead,
fear
ofonly
Ebolainsisted,
— Kaizer
to
oth
been
poisoned,
she
telling
Kaizer
for
a
prayer.
Mr.
Narmah
poured
Rose
Mombo,
a
church
member
there.
er
former
husband,
Edwin
Dour,
anointing
oil
on
Kaizer’s
head.
He
esced,
telling
Mamie
to
takehe
her
son.the
his
eyes
wide
open,
burst
into
people,
about
20
came,
mostly
workers
The
congregation
gathered
around
caused
of
Ebola.
of
Kaizer’s,
stoodspent
at
a
distance
and
fore,
Kaizer
“He
was
fighting.”
the
opened
suddenly.
Kaizer
lay
dying,
he
said
saw
rayer.
Mr.
Narmah
poured
Julie.”
totake
Kaizer’s
father.
Thenot
clinic’s
medical
Ebola,
though
before
transmitting
itgun,
The
guard
himself
would
soon
die ofa spraytherine
agreement, another source of divisio
toilet. I would clean her again.”
tears streaming down his face. The
salther.
wife
rsand
six empty
rice
bags
to sew
carestaggered
of him.
men take
the body
away.
ed.
“The
devil
is
very
busy.
The
Capitol
come
the
point
of
the
spect
in, hisfocal
large frame supported
woman
in black outbreak
who had been beckon- inwatched
water
on
the
side,
and
when
you ward
But
as
The
guilt
and
pain
of trying
to protect telling
in thetheir
family.He
Some saw
it as proof to
of he
He
took
hernot
to Kaizer’s
a local
clinic,
where
women, and his
brother,
looked
away.
Death
her
family
of
a
mysterious
woman
in
both
been
poisoned,
she
insisted,
black
terrorizing
Kaizer
in
his
sleep.
the
members
to
stretch
arms
anointing
oil
on
head.
told
Kaizer
but
to
touch
him.
together
as
burial
and
bottles
It
“There
was
noafamily,”
heshroud
said.
on either
side
byDoryen,
his
two favorite
auntshad
One of
morning,
Tina
an
aunt
ing to him in Kaizer
his in
troubled
dreams.
Heamembers
been
she
insisted,
telling
her
family
a
mysterious
woman
was
fighting.”
anointing
oil
on
Kaizer’s
head.
He
told
Kaizer,
his
eyes
wide
open,
burst
into
kened
Kaizer.
Instead,
they
spat
out
something
and
died.
the
to
stretch
their
arms
for
prayer.
Mr.
Narmah
poured
usands
whopoisoned,
himself
was
wrapped in“He
atotight knot
in- tears,
deception.
Others,
like
her
brother,
An
they
were
told
that
she
had
a
chest
cold.
on
Kaizer’s
head.
He
told
Kaizer,
his
eyes
wide
open,
burst
into
‘There
Was
No
Family’
staff,
terrified
by
the
deaths
at
the
state
to
Kaizer’s
father.
The
clinic’s
medical
Ebola,
though
not
before
transmitting
it
from
the
clinic
and
friends
from
father’s
“We,
who
had
family
around
there,
were
It
halfthe
an hour down
the Mes- careside
en
hree
years
oftook
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finish
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imagined her grief.
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with Edwina I’m
unable to walk
and one
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to Grips
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to reach
Kpoto
Island,
one
him byof
taxi
toain mysterious
black
terrorizing
in
hisacsleep.
her
family
ofen-closest
a erarms
mysterious
woman
ward
Kaizer
but
tothe
not
touch
him.
the
members
to
stretch
their
arms
The
men
drank
the
gin
before
Some
of
those
to
Kaizer died
the
next
morning
in his
bucket
which
heKaizer
had previously
survivors.
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family
took
no
such
precaubleeding
from
the
mouth,
Mark
carried
“Everybody
is angrytowith was
her,” h
amily
woman
in
terrorizing
invomhis
sleep.
alack
loved
one
tears,
spat
out
something
and
died.
the
members
to
stretch
their
to-Mamie
en
poisoned,
she
insisted,
telling
ward
but
to
not
him.
anointing
oilurado
on
Kaizer’s
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toldKaizer
Kaizer,
hisin
eyes
wide
open,
burst
into
It
happened
just
as
his
own
father
tears,
spat
out
something
and
died.
to
stretch
their
arms
toofKaizer
many
uninhabited
islands
up ahead.
chan- touch
pitol
Hill.
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day
broke,
hospital,
offered
the
ailing
guard
ministaff,
terrified
by
the
deaths
at
the
state
Edwin
Dour,
mid-40s
Mamie
Doryen,
to
Kaizer’s
father.
The
clinic’s
medical
“To see a loved one separated from
tering
the
room,
then
again
inside.
he
n
be
years
mother’s
home
next
to
the
swamp.
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her
on
his
back
and
put
her
in
a
taxi
to
said.
But
“she
herself
lose
her
mothe
ited.
“If
that
Ebola
want
to
kill
me,
let
it
Within
hours
of
the
death
of
Kaizer’s
Ebola
there.
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my
every
twoas
to three
weeks.
cenhe
recalled.
days
a
soldier
in
the
Army.
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getting
said
Teddy
Dowee,
21,
aofdying.”
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nel called hands,’”
Creek No.
2. With soft,
sandy
earned
that an ailing
Around
40
you,
you
talk
on
the
and
say, Mamie
Died
July 23hisLiberian
the hospital.
Turned
away
for touch
lack 29,
she
lose her
son, she lose
two sisters.”
Aunt Tina, the
other
aunt
who
hadKaizer
held
“Otherwise,
I couldn’t
do
said of
Mr.
onein
from
the
family,
except
grandblack
terrorizing
Kaizer
intelephone
his
sleep.
me,”
she
said, Mr.closest
Dowee
recalled.
ward
but
to family
not
him.
Some
those
closest
to
acthe
poisoning
story,
aafraid,”
widener
Kaizer’s
family
took
no
such
precau
tions.
To
Martha
Doryen,
another
rcarried
was
laid
to akill
kut
terrorizing
Kaizer
in worsening,
his
sleep.
ward
Kaizer
but
to
not
touch
him.
ily
mysterious
woman
soil,cepted
Kpoto
has
long
been
used
byit,”
the
tears,
spat
out
something
and
the
members
to
stretch
their
arms
toSome
of
those
tofather
Mamie
acIt
happened
just
as
hisdied.
own
father
inof
overnight.
was
being
laid
to
rest.
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the
fuKaizer’s
family
took
no
such
precauto
not
touch
him.
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happened
just
as
his
own
father
As word of the family deaths in Cap
mal
care.
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was
not
auhospital,
offered
the
ailing
guard
ministaff,
terrified
by
the
deaths
state
Mombo,
later
the brief ‘I’m dying,’ and you cannot go — it’s him up in church, Edwina Doryen, died beds, she was taken to an Ebola holding
mother,
went
there
toat
help.the
With
Kaizer’s
condition
10
under
the
ralseen
Home
poor
to burywho
their
dead. delivered
Now,
freshly
quickly.
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Mark
and
Princess
were
lucky
to
reng
at
“She
acted
very
bad,
my
sister-inmore painful
than the
war,” said
Lesfarewell
for
Kaizer.
“I
had
to
drink
“We
were
angry
and
also
afraid,”
said
the
Doryens
finally
took
him
outside
—
dug
graves
are
obvious
in
the
thick
family
member
came.
of
Kaizer’s
and
the
Doryen
clan.
“I
was
afraid.”
Kaizer’s
died,
cepted
the
poisoning
story,
a
wideSome
of
those
closest
to
Mamie
acfuneralfather
hall had
spread
belief
in
Liberia.
They
had
reasca
tions.
To
Martha
Doryen,
29,
another
Kaizer’s
family
took
no
such
precauaunt,
Kaizer
was
the
kid
nephew
who
ter’s
father,
Joseph
Morris.
rrorizing
Kaizer
in
his
sleep.
me
of
those
closest
to
Mamie
acward
Kaizer
but
to
not
touch
him.
was
being
laid
to
rest.
During
the
fuepted
the
poisoning
story,
a
wideKaizer’s
family
took
no
such
precauneral
service
for
Kaizer’s
father,
the
tions.
To
Martha
Doryen,
29,
another
It
happened
just
as
his
own
father
was
being
laid
to
rest.
During
the
fumily
took
no
such
precauto that
provide
but
he
mal
care.
Kaizer’s
father
was
not
ausomething
to give me more power.”
offered
the
ailing
guard
minibush.
Kaizer’s
uncle,
Abraham
Keita.
ahospital,
nearby church
was holding
acare,
arters
and shared
ato
well
me
e.
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10
er
the
yand
about
20 thorized
Kaizer
Dour,
22volunIt is her
a comparison
heard
often, one
ceive
treatment
at
all.
But
while
Mark,
law;
she
knew
that
son
had
thewidevi- had
Many
relatives
of
Ebola
victims
are
s. the clinic
Heavy
rain
allowed
the
fishermen
toher.
two-week revival.
Mamie continued
that in
may
seem
extreme.
The
war
killed
m
Died Aug.to9 insist that Kaizer
spread
belief
Liberia.
They
had
reacepted
the
poisoning
story,
a
son
to
put
faith
in
She
was
the
famForgiveness
and
Hope
had
aunt,
Kaizer
was
the
kid
nephew
who
tions.
To
Martha
Doryen,
29,
another
always
asked
her
for
a
treat
or
Martha
Doryen,
60s
ed
the
poisoning
story,
a
wideneral
service
for
Kaizer’s
father,
the
pread
belief
in
Liberia.
They
had
reascattered
attendees
learned
that
Kaizer
tions.
To
Martha
Doryen,
29,
another
of
those
closest
to
Mamie
acwas
being
laid
to
rest.
During
the
fuaunt,
Kaizer
was
kid
nephew
who
Kaizer’s
family
took
no
such
precaubelieved
to all
have
carried
out
secret
buri-area
August,
and
the
governIt
is
perhaps
a
peculiarity
of
the
psychoneral
service
for
Kaizer’s
father,
the
rtha
Doryen,
29,
another
perhaps
a
quarter-million
Liberians,
paddle
the
way
to
a
flooded
beteered
to
put
the
guard
on
an
intrathorized
to
provide
care,
but
he
volunmal
care.
Kaizer’s
father
was
not
audid
not
have
Ebola.
Perhaps
because
of
It
was
already
dark
and
the
reverend,
’s
days
as
a
at
her,
eir
10same
Died Aug. 31
improved,
Princess,
9, did
not.
Shesimply
After Kaizer’s
mother
rus
she
across
thehome
regionand
bodies
are never
om the deaths at 27,
ReEbolaeducated
only 2,800 officially in us,”
this coun- Mark
hind
the
ofbecause
Kaizer’s
mother.
Tony
her assurances, five
church
members als
Mr.
Narmah, was wrapping up a sery.
No family
son
to
put
faith
in
her.
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was
the
famspread
belief
in
Liberia.
They
had
reaily
anchor,
a
woman
of
about
40
whose
had
always
asked
her
for
a
treat
or
aunt,
Kaizer
was
the
kid
nephew
who
pocket
money.
This
year,
seeing
Kaizer
T
took
him
to
her
not
picked
up
in
time,
or
the
famother
health
facilities,
ad
belief
in
Liberia.
They
had
reascattered
attendees
learned
that
Kaizer
on
to
put
faith
in
her.
She
was
the
famhad
died
as
well.
the
poisoning
story,
a
wideaunt,
Kaizer
was
the
kid
nephew
who
try
so
far.
The
war’s
destruction
of
Monneral
service
for
Kaizer’s
father,
the
had
always
asked
her
for
a
treat
or
tions.
To
Martha
29,
Kaba,
22,want
a Doryen,
basketball
player
and
friendanother
scattered
attendees
learned
that
Kaizer
was
the
kid
nephew
who
joined
around
her
son’s
deathbed.
As ilies
mon
on
hope
when theto
double
doors
ofwas
venous
drip
—
and
infected
in
the
teered
to
put
the
guard
on
an
intraShared
Denial
and
Death
thorized
provide
care,
but
he
volunmily
that
same
do not
to surrender
relatives
Many of
Liberians
refamily’s
home,
By late that
September,
after
the death of
logical
to had
Ebola
people
outside
roviawas
can still wicked.
be seen in response
its broken
died
within
days.
by.
said.
me,
she
I don’t
Kaizer’s,
stood“To
at burials
a distance
and
Kaizer lay dying, Kaizer’s
he saidaunts
he Tina
saw the forof
mass
incinerations.
Such
are
keptical of Ebola’sthe
verychurch opened suddenly. Kaizer
roads,
schools She
and
buildings.
Ebola
has died
ily
anchor,
a
woman
of
about
40
whose
son
to
put
faith
in
her.
was
the
famreal
name
was
Yah
but
was
always
pocket
money.
This
year,
seeing
Kaizer
always
asked
her
for
a
treat
or
play
basketball
for
the
first
time
—
and
resp
o
put
faith
in
her.
She
was
the
famhad
as
well.
y
anchor,
a
woman
of
about
40
whose
belief
in
Liberia.
They
had
reahad
always
asked
her
for
a
treat
or
scattered
attendees
learned
that
Kaizer
pocket
money.
This
year,
seeing
Kaizer
aunt,
Kaizer
was
the
kid
nephew
who
The
government
was
still
incapable
of
watched
the
men
take
the
body
away.
staggered
in,
his
large
frame
supported
woman
in
black
who
had
been
beckonhad
died
believed
to contribute to a significant
sked
her
for
ahisbeing
treat
or
icious
of government
process.
venous
drip
—ingguard
and
was
infected
in
the
teered
to
put
the
on
an
intraandas
Edwina
and his
left no physical scar.
Joseph
ofath
that
uKaizer
and
six of his close neighrelatives, the
After
with
awell.
letter
call
ignorance.
Iof
call
that
wickd
anof was
the Ebola
deadMamie
inhe
Liberia,
“There
nothat
family,”
said.
government
slogan
—
either
side by
two favoritedischarged
aunts
to him by
in his
troubled
dreams.
grandmother
Martha He undercount
But an
to many
Liberians,
the pain
of whose
Overwhelmed
Kaizer’s
illness,
affected
family,
like
the
Doryen
real
name
was
Yah
but
was
always
anchor,
aseeing
woman
about
40
called
Mamie
because
she
acted
like
agovernment
basketball
for
theseeing
first
— clud
and
pocket
money.
This
year,
Kaizer
play
so
well
thatDoryens’
abasic
fan
him time
$50
nchor,
aonin
woman
of
about
40
whose
Sierra
and
Guinea.
name
was
Yah
but
was
always
written
on
billboards
ut
faith
her.
was
famThis
year,
Kaizer
had
died
as
well.
The
was
still
incapable
of
play
basketball
for
the
first
time
—
and
responding
in play
the
most
ways,
inhad
always
asked
her
for
aMestreat
ItLeone
tookily
half
an
hour
down
the
is or
greater.
Often,
the only
sure
illness,
Maalsopocket
contracted
the money.
Died
inShe
2011
.”meal
This
year,
seeing
Kaizer
The
government
was
still
incapable
of Ebola
process.
venous
drip
—the
and
was
infected
in
the
Kaizer’s
father
tested
positive
for
revely
fortusickness
seemed
at handed
bay.
Twenty-three
merely
reinforced
the
For
Kaizer’s
team,
the Timberwolves,
that
he
was
“no
longer
infectious,”
Mark
edness.”
urado
River
to reach
Kpoto Island, one way to survive is to abandon one’s famdisease.
by taxi
to
it wasa
not.woman
hisofmother
death
upturned
the
future.
Itfirst
had
called
Mamie
because
she
acted
like
aplay
real
name
but $50
was
always
to
her
younger
siblings.
play
so
well
that
a
fan
handed
him
bod
basketball
for
the
first
time
—
and
after
the
game
—
Martha
realized
with
ily.Yah
Doryen
had
brought
him
by
taxi
to
her
fambors,
were
often
better
able
to
grasp
the
realname
was
Yah
but
was
always
alled
Mamie
because
she
acted
like
a
or,
of
about
40
whose
play
basketball
for
the
time
—
and
many
uninhabited
islands
up
a was
chanresponding
in
the
most
basic
ways,
including
collecting
the
highly
infectious
play
so
well
that
a
fan
handed
him
sat
day
broke,
pocket
money.
This
year,
seeing
Kaizer
The
government
was
still
incapable
of
Edwin
Dour,
mid-40s
Mamie
Doryen,
ll
for
the
first
time
—
and
responding
in
the
most
basic
ways,
inprocess.
Ebola,
but
the
government
did
not
tell
Kaizer’s
father
tested
positive
for
planned
to build
the franchise
around
deaths
had occurred
in
ythat
frefortuEsther’s
father
and
uncle
begged
the
days had passed since the last sick fam- $50
began workingTina for
Doctors
Without
taxi
nel called
Creekdestined
No. 2. With
soft, sandy
tfor
anmany,
ailing
Around
40
Died
July
23
Mr.
Morris,
Tina’s
Kaizer,
who seemed
to become
any illness
Doryen, 20
Lester
government
for she
help. The
family
re- like a pride
mother
to
her
younger
siblings.
called
Mamie
because
acted
afte
after
the
game
—
play
sohe
well
that
asmall
fan
handed
him $50with
So
the
family
allowed
Kaizer
to
stay,
that
was
“no
player.”
soil,
Kpoto
has
long
been
used
by
the
d
Mamie
because
she
acted
like
a
vernight.
mother
to
her
younger
siblings.
me
was
Yah
but
was
always
cluding
collecting
the
highly
infectious
play
so
well
that
a
fan
handed
him
$50
bodies
of
the
Ebola
dead.
So
twoMartha
daysof realized
after
the
game
—
Martha
realized
with
play
basketball
for
first
time
—
and
responding
in
the
most
basic
ways,
inthe toptell
player
in the
Liberiainfectious
Basketball
sed suspicion
of Ebola.handed
estranged
husband
Morris, positive
peatedly
called around
its Ebola hotline to getthem.
cluding
collecting
highly
hat
fan
him
$50
DiedHill.
Aug.
27
his
family.
theory,
workers
are
supEbola,
but
government
did
not
Kaizer’s
father
tested
for
ily
in In
Capitol
As
day
broke,
neighbors
ity
l,
destroyted’t
freily
member
was
taken
out
Capitol
poorthe
to bury
Now,
Borders.
Once
a the
denier
of
neighbors,
beaTeddy
said their
Jairus dead.
Harris,
the freshly
family
around there,
and Esther’she
father, be-Federation,
her out of Capitol Hill, but received only
27 Ebola,
The Spreadsiblings.
mother
to
her
younger
siblings.
Adrift
in
Anger
So
family
allowed
Kaizer
to
stay,
pride
that
he
was
“no
small
player.”
after
the
game
—
Martha
realized
with
sharing
one
room
with
three
family
dug
graves
are
obvious
in the
the
thick
team’s
vice
president.
aid,”
said
Dowee,
er So
had
died,
“They
were
afraid
of
Ebola,”
Martha
did after
not visit
Tina
and
er
to
her
younger
empty
promises.
Mamie
because
she
acted
like
a
bodies
of
the
Ebola
dead.
So
two
days
the
game
—
Martha
realized
with
after
Kaizer’s
death,
the
stench
of
his
the
family
allowed
Kaizer
to
stay,
pride
that
he
was
“no
small
player.”
cluding
collecting
the
highly
infectious
play
so
well
a
fan
handed
him
$50
bodies
of
thenot
Ebola
dead.
Sowellcarried
two
estroyMartha
realized
with
posed
inform
families
ofKaizer
test
results;
his
family.
Inantheory,
workers
are
supEbola,
but
the
government
did
tell
ts.
g-—aandwell
Hill,
two
daysoften
beyondwrapped
Ebola’s maxi- cor
aizer’s
the
Doryen
Kaizer
was
fast, shot
and fear- days It was late August, and the governInto
the
Family
bush.
hared
Esther,
came
an
evangelist.
Dour,
22 fearing
learned
that
ailing
Kaizer
had
been
Those
inside
the
family
d.”
lessly
challenged
any sharing
opponent.
Over
ment
was would
panicking.
It had
deployed
infection.
Many
relatives
ofthe
Ebola
victims
are
bor
one
room
with
three
family
So
family
allowed
Kaizer
to
stay,
members
—
all
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die.
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church
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be
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the
church
members.
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bers
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said
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only
son.
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afraid
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to
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rome
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of
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e
neighbors
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son.
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Doryens
take
Kaizer
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said
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church
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Capitol
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Capitol Hill.
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on therome
sidewalk.
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Doryens’
neighbors
stepped
up
demands
that
Kaizer
leave
Capitol
Mombo,
to abury
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son.
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ownon
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ens
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up
nforced
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team,
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cousins
from
the
Doryen
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his
death
upturned
the
future.
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had
quarters
and
shared
a
well
with
the
Doryens.
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family
to
avoid
being
ostracized
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around
Kaizer
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the
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his
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money
to
coming
clear.
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finally, an up
ambulance.
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who
mid-40s,
died
July
23.
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ed that Kaizer
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illnessreporting.
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with his family in the Capitol Hill community, where the Doryens thrived before Ebola hit.
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to
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ents
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the
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Capining
Federation,
said too,
Jairus Harris,
the
ound
there,
and Esther’s
father,
27
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love
for
him
and
the
fear
of
Ebola
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to
his
relatives
—
caught
between
their
take
care
of
him.
team’s
vice
president.
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Mamie
to
take
her
son.
as
soon
as
possible.
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Doryens
acquiddy Dowee,
mother
had
given
him.
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paid
fishermen
$60
and
spent
the
rest
on
chlorine,
the
$55
in
American
currency
Kaizer’s
did
not
visit
Tina
and
elatives
—
caught
between
their
ove
for
him
and
the
fear
of
Ebola
—
to
ave
the
psychological
room
for
as
soon
as
possible.
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Doryens
acquiesced,
telling
Mamie
to
take
her
son.
demands
that
Kaizer
leave
Capitol
Hill
mother
had
given
him.
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paid
fisherhelped
tend
to
his
dying
father.
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as
ents
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separated
years
before,
Kaizer
mid-40s,
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July
23.
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take
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Mamie
take
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possible.
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$60
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spent
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rest
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case
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his
dying
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as
ents
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years
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master,
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nearly
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weeks.
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asan
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out
those doubts the years,
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Family’
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of M
to
playing
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National
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that
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morning,
Tina
Doryen,
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aunt
tending
to
Kaizer,
took
a
bath
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a
Died
Sept.
7
a
spray
gun,
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empty
rice
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sew
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the
rest
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FIRST CASE
FIRST CASE
DANIEL BEREHULAK FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
THE NEW YORK TIMES
They often had no choice: Throughout the
Ebola hot zone, the chronic lack of treatment
beds for months forced families to care for the
sick at home.
And so Mamie denied that Ebola had killed
her former husband, Edwin Dour, and sickened
Kaizer. Instead, they had both been poisoned,
she insisted, telling her family of a mysterious
woman in black terrorizing Kaizer in his sleep.
Some of those closest to Mamie accepted
the poisoning story, a widespread belief in
Liberia. They had reason to put faith in her.
She was the family anchor, a woman of about
40 whose real name was Yah but was always
called Mamie because she acted like a mother
to her younger siblings.
So the family allowed Kaizer to stay, sharing one room with three family members — all
of whom would die.
The neighbors demanded that the Doryens take Kaizer away, threatening to call the
authorities. But the poisoning story gave the
psychological room for his relatives — caught
between their love for him and the fear of Ebola — to take care of him.
One morning, Tina Doryen, an aunt tending to Kaizer, took a bath using a bucket in
which he had previously vomited. “If that Ebola want to kill me, let it kill me,” she said, Mr.
Dowee recalled.
With Kaizer’s condition worsening, the Doryens finally took him outside — to a nearby
church that was holding a two-week revival.
It was already dark and the reverend, Mr.
Narmah, was wrapping up a sermon on hope
when the double doors of the church opened
suddenly. Kaizer staggered in, his large frame
supported on either side by his two favorite
aunts — Tina, 20, and Edwina, 24. With Ebola
in mind, the reverend instructed the aunts,
both members of his church, to stay at the
back with Kaizer.
“He had no strength,” Mr. Narmah said.
“He couldn’t talk.”
The congregation gathered around Kaizer
for a prayer. Mr. Narmah poured anointing oil
on Kaizer’s head. He told the members to stretch
their arms toward Kaizer but to not touch him.
Kaizer’s family took no such precautions.
To Martha Doryen, 29, another aunt, Kaizer was
the kid nephew who had always asked her for a
treat or pocket money. This year, seeing Kaizer
play basketball for the first time — and play so
well that a fan handed him $50 after the game
— Martha realized with pride that he was “no
small player.”
“They were afraid of Ebola,” Martha said
of the church members. “It was my sister’s
only son. How can I be afraid? I can’t lie. I
touched him.”
The Doryens’ neighbors stepped up demands that Kaizer leave Capitol Hill as soon as
possible. The Doryens acquiesced, telling Mamie to take her son.
‘There Was No Family’
Kaizer died the next morning in his mother’s home next to the swamp. No one from the
family, except his grandmother, went there
to help.
“We were angry and also afraid,” said Kaizer’s uncle, Abraham Keita.
Mamie continued to insist that Kaizer did
not have Ebola. Perhaps because of her assurances, five church members joined around her
son’s deathbed. As Kaizer lay dying, he said he
saw the woman in black who had been beckoning to him in his troubled dreams. He could
no longer hide from her, she told him, as those
gathered around him prayed loudly in tongues.
Abruptly, Kaizer reached for his neck.
“He said he saw the woman, the spirit, standing over him, choking him,” said Rose Mombo, a
church member there. “He was fighting.”
Kaizer, his eyes wide open, burst into tears,
spat out something and died.
It happened just as his own father was being laid to rest. During the funeral service for
Kaizer’s father, the scattered attendees learned
that Kaizer had died as well.
The government was still incapable of responding in the most basic ways, including
collecting the highly infectious bodies of the
Ebola dead. So two days after Kaizer’s death,
the stench of his corpse seeping out toward her
neighbors, his mother asked one of them, Jerome Mombo, to bury her son.
Mr. Mombo took precautions against Ebola, adding $15 of his own money to the $55 in
American currency Kaizer’s mother had given
him. He paid fishermen $60 and spent the rest
on chlorine, a spray gun, six empty rice bags
to sew together as a burial shroud and bottles
of Manpower.
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FIRST CASE
Mamie Doryen,
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Died Aug. 9
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Edwin Dour, mid-40s
Died July 23
Lester
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Esther, 5
Died Sept. 7
Edwina Doryen, 24
Died Aug. 27
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The men drank the gin before entering the
room, then again inside.
“Otherwise, I couldn’t do it,” said Mr. Mombo, who later delivered the brief farewell for
Kaizer. “I had to drink something to give me
more power.”
Heavy rain allowed the fishermen to paddle
all the way to a flooded area behind the home
of Kaizer’s mother. Tony Kaba, 22, a basketball
player and friend of Kaizer’s, stood at a distance
and watched the men take the body away.
“There was no family,” he said.
It took half an hour down the Mesurado
River to reach Kpoto Island, one of many uninhabited islands up a channel called Creek No. 2.
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by the poor to bury their dead. Now, freshly dug
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For Kaizer’s team, the Timberwolves, his
death upturned the future. It had planned to
build the franchise around Kaizer, who seemed
destined to become the top player in the Liberia
Basketball Federation, said Jairus Harris, the
team’s vice president.
Kaizer was fast, shot well and fearlessly
challenged any opponent. Over the years,
two Liberians had come close to playing in
the National Basketball Association in the
United States, a source of pride for Liberian
basketball.
“Kaizer would have made it in the N.B.A.,”
Mr. Harris said. “I’m sure.”
Instead, his mother returned alone to Capitol Hill, seeking the comfort that the Doryens
had always provided one another. But things
were different this time. The consequences
of the family’s rallying around Kaizer were
quickly becoming clear.
Kaizer’s two favorite aunts, the ones who
had held him up in church, died on the same
day, Aug. 27, less than three weeks after he
did. Kaizer’s grandmother and a cousin were
visibly sick, too. Some of Kaizer’s uncles had
fled Capitol Hill. The remaining Doryens gathered in a daze.
“It was a scene to behold,” said the Rev. Alvin Attah, who has known the family for decades.
At the pastor’s urging, Kaizer’s grandmother
boarded an ambulance to a treatment center.
Blamed for bringing Ebola to Capitol Hill,
Kaizer’s mother could not return to her family
home. She wandered toward her church half a
mile away and knocked on the homes of congregation members, searching for a place to
spend the night.
“But they refused to let her in,” said Felicia
Koneh, a family friend. “Everybody was afraid.
No one knows where she went after that.”
“It’s pathetic, you know, to see a family just
fall apart,” she said.
Distance and Guilt
Ebola is an insidious disease. It turns compassion into a danger. It turns survival into a
haunting source of guilt.
Kaizer’s cousin, Esther, 5, the daughter
of his beloved Aunt Tina, was clearly sick. On
the day Tina died, Esther’s father faced the
anguish of going to see his ailing daughter in
Capitol Hill — but being too afraid to get close
enough to comfort her.
“She tried to get to me, but I stood at a distance,” said her father, Lester Morris, 27, who
had separated from Tina this year. “I told her to
go to her Auntie Julie.”
The guilt and pain of trying to protect himself was wrapped in a tight knot inside him, a
feeling shared by many other survivors.
“To see a loved one separated from you, you
talk on the telephone and say, ‘I’m dying,’ and
you cannot go — it’s more painful than the war,”
said Lester’s father, Joseph Morris.
It is a comparison heard often, one that
may seem extreme. The war killed perhaps
a quarter-million Liberians, Ebola only 2,800
officially in this country so far. The war’s destruction of Monrovia can still be seen in its
broken roads, schools and buildings. Ebola
has left no physical scar.
But to many Liberians, the pain of Ebola is
greater. Often, the only sure way to survive is to
abandon one’s family.
Esther’s father and uncle begged the government for help. The family repeatedly called
its Ebola hotline to get her out of Capitol Hill,
but received only empty promises.
It was late August, and the government was
panicking. It had deployed soldiers to quarantine Monrovia’s largest slum, setting off deadly
riots. The cost of paralysis by the international
community was continuing to mount.
The Doryens worried that Esther would
infect them, as Kaizer had. On Aug. 31, one of
the remaining aunts, Julie Doryen, guided the
girl with a stick to the main road outside Capitol
Hill. Esther collapsed on the sidewalk.
A large, angry crowd watched from across
the street, drawing the police and, finally, an
ambulance. Esther, who had appeared dead,
stirred to life. Her father, Lester, arrived minutes after she was put inside the ambulance.
She was taken to an Ebola treatment center. Her father and uncle visited and thought
she was doing better.
Before visiting again, Lester looked wistfully at a Christmas card from last year. In it,
wearing a red dress with a big white ribbon,
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backdrop of a colonial house, a green lawn and
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Overnight, her uncle received a call from
a friend inside the center. Esther had died. He
did not tell Lester. On the taxi ride there, Lester began to suspect his brother was hiding
something. By the time they arrived in front
of the center at 10:30 a.m., Lester was yelling
at his brother. Lester paced back and forth, his
eyes reddening.
“He’s weeping,” said a man nearby.
“Maybe somebody dying?” said another.
“Brother, you gotta be a man,” a taxi driver
said. “Be a man, yeah? Don’t be crying.”
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about his daughter’s death. He said nothing. His
brother asked for the body for a proper funeral,
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wailing, throwing her hands in the air. There
were no tears, but the sound echoed throughout Capitol Hill.
With no body to bury, Lester could not meet
his traditional duties. Suddenly, he started crying, uncontrollably, tears streaming down his
face. The women, and his brother, looked away.
Coming to Grips
Within hours of the death of Kaizer’s Aunt
Tina, the other aunt who had held him up in church,
Edwina Doryen, died as well. Two weeks later, her
husband, Mark Jerry, sat slumped outside an Ebola treatment center. Their daughter Princess sat
to his right, resting her forehead against the wall.
Both were too weak even to drink water.
For days, Mark had maintained his denials
about the family illnesses. He was sick, too, but
told friends he had typhoid and switched off his
cellphone. After Princess fell ill, things changed.
“I’m convinced it was Ebola,” Mark said.
It was mid-September, and Liberia stood
on a precipice. Monrovia had become the focal
point of the outbreak in West Africa. Infections
were doubling every two to three weeks.
Mark and Princess were lucky to receive
treatment at all. But while Mark, 27, improved,
Princess, 9, did not. She died within days.
After being discharged with a letter that he
was “no longer infectious,” Mark began working for Doctors Without Borders. Once a denier
of Ebola, he became an evangelist.
Mark, a money changer, and Kaizer’s Aunt
Edwina, a restaurant worker, had spent years
saving $900 to build their home, a simple structure steps away from the Doryen house. He had
suspected that Kaizer had Ebola. The unease
felt by the Doryens’ neighbors in Capitol Hill
had unsettled him.
But he had blocked out those doubts when
Edwina got sick. What else could he do but
take care of her?
“Edwina and I were like one person,” he
said. “I would bathe her. She was toileting
all day. I would clean her, and then after two,
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with Edwina unable to walk and bleeding from
the mouth, Mark carried her on his back and
put her in a taxi to the hospital. Turned away
for lack of beds, she was taken to an Ebola
holding center. She died there the next day, on
a brown mattress on a filthy floor, surrounded
by body fluids.
A rage built within him. All the suffering —
all the pointless deaths in the family — stemmed
from a betrayal, he said: Mamie’s refusal to admit what was wrong with Kaizer.
She had at least suspected the truth, Mark
said. Once Edwina became symptomatic, Kaizer’s mother, the progenitor of the poisoning narrative, offered a suspicious warning.
“She said, ‘Mark, the way you’re taking
care of Edwina, you got to get chlorine water on
the side, and when you finish taking care of her,
you wash your hands,’ ” he recalled.
“She acted very bad, my sister-in-law; she
knew that her son had the virus and she never educated us,” Mark said. “To me, she was
wicked. I don’t call that ignorance. I call that
wickedness.”
Adrift in Anger
The disappearance of Kaizer’s mother
quickly set the Doryens adrift, leaving them
to endure one loss after another without their
central figure.
Four of Kaizer’s aunts and cousins died in
a month. Kaizer’s grandmother died, too, on
Aug. 31. But the Doryens did not even find out
about her death for nearly two weeks. Mamie,
as the head of the family, gave her cellphone
as a contact number when the ambulance took
away the grandmother. When Mamie disappeared, health officials were unable to contact
the Doryens.
Mamie’s absence stirred fierce disagreement, another source of division in the family.
Some saw it as proof of her deception. Others,
like her brother, Anthony Doryen, imagined
her grief.
“Everybody is angry with her,” he said. But
“she herself lose her mother, she lose her son,
she lose two sisters.”
As word of the family deaths in Capitol
Hill spread to Mamie’s neighbors near the
swamp, they grew alarmed. Mr. Mombo, who
buried Kaizer, reached Mamie by phone after
many attempts.
“Why you running from place to place?” Mr.
Mombo asked her. “But since then, her phone is
switched off.”
Mamie insisted in a brief phone interview
that Kaizer was poisoned and died after the
woman in black told him he was “finished.”
“Everybody is carrying my name around,”
Mamie said. “I didn’t do anything.”
“Nobody should blame me,” she added.
“The devil is very busy. The Capitol Hill people
saying I’m the one carrying Ebola there. All my
family dying.”
Forgiveness and Hope
By late September, after the death of Kaizer and six of his close relatives, the sickness
seemed at bay. Twenty-three days had passed
since the last sick family member was taken out
of Capitol Hill, two days beyond Ebola’s maximum incubation period.
“It’s good to stay alive,” said Abraham Keita, Kaizer’s uncle.
He smiled, stretched and brought out a
DVD, “Monrovia on Fire,” a local martial arts
film in which he had a supporting role. He hoped
for a bigger part in a sequel. Mr. Keita, a furniture maker and taekwondo master, was planning for the future.
One of the Doryen brothers had returned
to Capitol Hill, though he still kept his wife and
children away. Mr. Keita hoped the other Doryens would follow, including Mamie.
“Before, yes, I was angry,” he said. “Everybody was angry with her.” He laughed. “Now I
can forgive her. That’s what God says.”
“Maybe after one month, two months, she
will come back, because we are the same family.”
In Liberia, too, the mood has begun to
shift. New Ebola cases have dropped significantly, leading some international and local
health officials to say they are making headway against the disease. On Thursday, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf lifted the state of
emergency imposed on the country, saying
“we can all be proud of the progress.”
Weeks earlier, Martha Doryen, Kaizer’s
aunt, stood outside her house. A cellphone number and “Yah” — Mamie’s real name — were
scribbled on the front wall with charcoal.
Mamie’s new cellphone number?
Instead, Martha looked at her 13-yearold daughter, who had just celebrated receiving her first cellphone by writing the number
on the house. Her name is also Yah. Thirteen
years ago, Martha asked her big sister, Mamie, to name her firstborn. Mamie named the
girl after herself, Yah, a new generation’s hour
come round at last.
Then, almost as an afterthought, MarClair MacDougall contributed reporting.
tha mentioned that Mamie had called that
morning, the first time since she was forced
from Capitol Hill a month earlier. Martha
was sitting on her porch making dry rice
with fish. An unknown number had flashed
on her cellphone.
“She says she’s fine,” Martha said. “She’s
just telling us to wash our hands, stay away
from people and be with ourselves. Because
herself, she is O.K., taking the same advice
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