Liberian Town Loses Its ‘Prayer Warrior', Sis Jartu Kerkulah, In Latest Ebola Casualty

Liberian Town Loses Its ‘Prayer Warrior' In Latest Ebola Casualty
Health workers carry the body of a woman that they suspect died from the Ebola virus, as children, right rear, watch in a area known as Clara Town in Monrovia, Liberia, Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2014. A surge in Ebola infections in Liberia is driving a spiraling outbreak in West Africa that is increasingly putting health workers at risk as they struggle to treat an overwhelming number of patients. A higher proportion of health workers has been infected in this outbreak than in any previous one. (AP Photo/Abbas Dulleh)
Health workers carry the body of a woman that they suspect died from the Ebola virus, as children, right rear, watch in a area known as Clara Town in Monrovia, Liberia, Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2014. A surge in Ebola infections in Liberia is driving a spiraling outbreak in West Africa that is increasingly putting health workers at risk as they struggle to treat an overwhelming number of patients. A higher proportion of health workers has been infected in this outbreak than in any previous one. (AP Photo/Abbas Dulleh)

JOE BLOW TOWN, Liberia—“Sis” Jartu Kerkulah was in the floral-print chair in her living room when the burial team in biohazard suits found her. Behind her was a bulletin board with snapshots of some of the people who had enriched her life of 46 years, a list that included her four children, her siblings, and friends from her Pentecostal church. An open prayer book lay face-down on her armrest. A toy fire station rested on the linoleum floor beside her feet.

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