Time Chooses Ebola Health Workers as 'Person of the Year'

Time magazine has chosen the health care workers who are on the front lines in the fight against Ebola as its “Person of the Year 2014,” the magazine announced on Wednesday. The virus jumped from an outbreak to an epidemic in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone, and there have been scattered cases in Nigeria, Mali, Spain, Germany and the United States. On Time’s website, editor Nancy Gibbs praises “the people in the field, the special forces of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins...

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