Ebola Wipes Out Every Mother in Liberian Village

January 5, 2015

(The Telegraph) – For 11-year-old Montgomery Philip, childhood is over. Six months ago he would have been playing football with his schoolmates, but now his job is to care for his 10-monthold baby brother Jenkie. The pair are both victims of the Ebola virus. Not because they caught the disease, but because they live in Joeblow, Liberia, where the devastating outbreak has killed every mother in the village. The women died because social convention decrees it is they who tend to the sick and bury the dead.