“I feel very isolated and rejected and powerless,” the young woman told BuzzFeed News.
Marquita Avenue in Dallas.
Jim Dalrymple II
Correia lives on Marquita Avenue in Dallas, Texas. When she moved there from Portland, Oregon, a few months ago, it was just an ordinary place. The narrow streets are lined with quaint, early 20th century buildings and shaded by big leafy trees.
But on Oct. 12, Marquita Avenue became famous for one thing: Ebola.
The disease's arrival put Correia's neighbor, Nina Pham, in the hospital, where she remained a week and a half later. But it also turned Correia — who didn't even know Pham's name — into an outcast, and highlights the weird and unexpected collateral effects Ebola can have people.
Over several interviews this week, Correia told the story of her isolation to BuzzFeed News. The young woman, who did not want to be photographed, said she lives in the same building as Pham, but didn't know what was happening until a friend called and woke her up on the morning of Oct. 12.
"I found some flyers on my door talking about Ebola," she recalled. "At that point I knew very little about what was happening. But I kind of figured it out because all the cameras were pointed at my building and there was a large drum of bio hazard material."
A packet of Ebola-related materials that was distributed at Correia's apartment building.
Jim Dalrymple II
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