Declan Walsh

It's only been two weeks since it was officially declared.

And I've been speaking to people on the ground here and they say it already feels like they've been at this for months because it's been such an intense start.

Most Ebola outbreaks start with a handful of cases and then it spreads.

The challenge with this one is that from day one, there were hundreds of suspected cases and many deaths.

And those numbers are just going up and up at the moment.

I do.

I've been in touch with his dad.

He's been sending me messages every day.

And a couple of days ago, he sent me a message and he said that his son had been sitting up

had been drawing numbers because he'd just been learning to count, and that he was asking for his toys.

And then today, he said that Emmanuel's been discharged and he's gone home.

Thank you, Natalie.

Thank you.

When I walked into the Ebola ward in Mangualu General Hospital, the first thing that struck me was how many people were walking around without any form of protection.

A handful of people were wearing rubber gloves.

Some of them had pulled a scarf or part of their sweater across their mouths.

But for the most part, people were wearing nothing.

And that meant that they were at great risk of catching the virus that causes Ebola themselves.

The other thing was just how tightly packed the patients were.

In that small ward that we visited, we found a five-year-old boy who had just come in the night before with incessant bleeding from his nose.