EBOLA: Liberian Woman Declared Virus-Free Slept With Her Fiancé, Who Got Sick

Helena Henry watched Ebola take her mother, two brothers, a grandmother and sister-in-law. So when she survived her own bout with the virus, the 30-year-old seller of secondhand clothes hoped it couldn’t infect anyone close to her again. 

Helena Henry of Kakata, Liberia, survived Ebola. Her fiancé, 
Ambrose, later died in the same tent where she cared for him.

On the night she was discharged from a clinic outside the Liberian capital Monrovia where she had been treated for the virus, she returned to her fiancé and companion of 12 years and celebrated. They slept together, she said. Less than a week later, he became ill.

For the next dozen days, Ambrose Queme lay in the same tent where Ms. Henry had fought Ebola. She held his hand.

Assatu Bar receives a certificate confirming a clean bill of 
health in Harbel, Liberia. Glenna Gordon for the Wall 
Street Journal

They slept side-by-side on mats stretched across the floor. Before dawn each day, they quietly prayed together while other patients slept.

“He just tells me he will make it,” she said in October during a respite from looking after him. “He will be strong.”

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Most people infected by Ebola either live or die within a couple of weeks of becoming sick. Those who recover generally aren’t contagious—except perhaps through sex.

Ms. Henry isn’t sure how her fiancé contracted the virus.

The Atlanta-based U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warns the Ebola virus can hide in sexually transmitted fluids for as long as 90 days.

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