--- description: Nurse-hygienist trainees enter the Liberian Ministry of Health's Ebola treatment unit in Monrovia. More than 300 health care workers in West Africa have died of... title: Into The Hot Zone image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [World](/section/world/) ## World Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Into The Hot Zone by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Dec 11, 2014 11:03 AM CUT by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Dec 11, 2014 11:03 AM CUT Nurse-hygienist trainees enter the Liberian Ministry of Health’s Ebola treatment unit in Monrovia. More than 300 health care workers in West Africa have died of Ebola since the outbreak began, but others are still putting themselves in harm’s way. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3629552/into-the-hot-zone/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3629552/into-the-hot-zone/"},"headline":"Into The Hot Zone","datePublished":"2014-12-11T11:03:24.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T02:45:54.182Z","description":"Nurse-hygienist trainees enter the Liberian Ministry of Health's Ebola treatment unit in Monrovia. More than 300 health care workers in West Africa have died of...","url":"https://time.com/3629552/into-the-hot-zone/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3629552/into-the-hot-zone/","name":"Into The Hot Zone"}}]}] ```