Anne Deborah Atai-Omoruto, Who Helped Lead Ebola Fight in Liberia, Dies at 59

 By CLAIR MacDOUGALl.Good bye to a hero!Anne Deborah Atai-Omoruto, a Ugandan doctor who went to Liberia at the height of the Ebola epidemic in 2014 and helped turn the tide in the battle against the disease, died on May 5 in Kampala, Uganda. She was 59.The cause was pancreatic cancer, her daughter Acom Victoria said.Dr. Atai-Omoruto, at the request of the World Health Organization, arrived in Liberia in July 2014 with a team of 14 Ugandan health workers she had gathered.