Storycorps’ Story of the Week: “By the time we arrived, more than 20 nurses had died from Ebol

Anne Purfield (L) and Michelle Dynes (R) are epidemiologists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). They both volunteered to spend several weeks in Sierra Leone, responding to the Ebola outbreak there. When they returned to the U.S., they came to StoryCorps to talk about what they saw.

Hear the whole story here.