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Health: Ebola survivors likely to become disabled after a year

Ebola survivors need long-term rehabilitation to keep them from getting disabled, after they recover from illness. BY ADRAMS MULAMA Scientists from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and the University of Liverpool assessed disability among Ebola survivors, 12 months after they were discharged from a hospital in Sierra Leone. The researchers assessed vision, hearing, mobility, self-care, communication and cognition.