Foreign Correspondent: Aug 26

Foreign Correspondent is at the frontline in Sierra Leone as the Ebola virus takes hold, where Australians are amongst the volunteers trying to contain this terrifying disease.

It’s been declared an international public health emergency.

It’s wiped out entire families, devastated communities, hopped borders and even killed the people trying to stop it.

It’s Ebola. A terrifying virus that brings on a crippling painful death, that’s confounding and concerning international health and medical experts.

There’s no vaccine. No cure.

The latest outbreak erupted in West Africa and at its epicentre in Sierra Leone an emergency centre near the borders of Liberia and Guinea is taking on a heavy caseload.

It’s there that Foreign Correspondent finds brave local volunteers and some determined Australians doing their best to comfort sufferers, console bereaved families, alert people to the dangers and symptoms and defeat the scourge of Ebola.

Our team was the last camera crew into the hardest hit areas of Sierra Leone before a Government lockdown was engaged. We were there at the frontline for one of the worst weeks in the Ebola crisis.

Tuesday, 26 August at 8pm on ABC.