Care providers in Sierra Leone have more than 100 times the risk of becoming infected with the Ebola virus than the country's general public does, according to NBC News.
This number may be unsurprising, given how intimately healthcare workers interact with patients. However, the report also indicates healthcare workers form their own community, and are susceptible to contracting the virus if one of their own falls ill or dies by means of socializing with one another or even attending funerals.
"If one of them gets ill and dies, the other healthcare workers attend the funeral," said Peter Kilmarx, MD, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director for Zimbabwe, told NBC News. "It's sort of a multiplier effect."
Additionally, the report says healthcare workers will often times tend to their family and friends who are afraid to go to hospitals and not use necessary precautions, especially if the patient delivers a false negative.
According to the World Health Organization, 622 healthcare workers have been infected in all countries affected by Ebola, and 346 of them have died.
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