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26 February 2015, 7:08 pm Written by 
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Musa Pabai left an Ebola treatment center in Liberia in November, grateful to have survived a disease that has killed nearly 10,000 people across West Africa but fearing he still

could pose grave danger the person closest to him. By Valentine's Day, nearly three months later, the 23-year-old had not yet returned to Hannah, his girlfriend and mother of his young son. "I don't want to be tempted by her ... It would be a problem," he said in the capital Monrovia, where he spent his self-imposed exile, afraid that he could still infect her through sexual contact despite his clean bill of health. Follow details on http://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFKBN0LT0JD20150225

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