How a Photographer Leaves the Hot Zone: A First-Hand Account of Ebola Screening – by Marcus DiPaola | The Photo Brigade

How a Photographer Leaves the Hot Zone: A First-Hand Account of Ebola Screening – by Marcus DiPaola – The Photo Brigade

NYC-based photographer Marcus DiPaola explains what it’s like to travel back from Liberia after covering the Ebola epidemic.

via The Photo Brigade: http://thephotobrigade.com/2014/10/how-a-photographer-leaves-the-hot-zone-a-first-hand-account-of-ebola-screening-by-marcus-dipaola/

On the way home, photographers should expect to face three levels of screening: in the hot zone, in a transit country, and in their home country. I just returned from a week-long trip to Liberia where I saw everything from an Ebola vomit-stained mattress being dragged out of an Ebola ward to bodies being hauled out of someone’s home. It was challenging, but not quite as challenging as trying to leave the country.