Ebola does not only kill its victims but it also increases teenage pregnancy rate. That is according to a senior official in Sierra Leone, one of the three West African countries that have suffered most from the Ebola outbreak. You may be curious to find out the link between Ebola and teenage pregnancy. Well, this is it: one way Ebola has been tackled in West Africa is to close schools to limit contact and hence the spread of the deadly virus. Now, when schools are closed, teenage girls stay at home. When teenage girls stay at home, not very good things happen. Remember, it is about the girls staying at home not what the men do to them. So you see the connection - Ebola closes school, teenage girls wander at home and pregnancy comes to them like an airborne disease. So the government, full of morally righteous people who steal Ebola aid money, bans the girls from attending school for being bad examples. Classic Sierra Leonean government's way of addressing a crisis! Just like it handles Ebola!
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