People around the world are still taking Ebola very seriously. CBS News reporter Lara Logan is no exception, as the journalist and her crew decided to quarantine themselves for 21 days in South Africa following a week-long assignment in Liberia. Via FaceTime, she elaborated on her quarantine, as well as her experiences in the Ebola-afflicted nation.

For the most part, Logan says, the efforts to limit transmission and infection of the disease are staggering.

“One thing that strikes you when you arrive in the country is that the first thing you see is Liberian workers in the airport who are wearing face masks, and some of them wearing aprons. Before you can enter the terminal building, you have to wash your hands with chlorine,” she recalls.

The reason for the visit was to document American workers in the country working alongside Liberian staff, doing their best to save people from a disease with a 70% death rate in that part of the world. Logan, a seasoned war reporter, still found much of the hardship she witnessed difficult to take in.

“[Liberia] is very much like a war. You have to keep it together because that’s your job, and you can’t be here if you can’t do that. But it’s so heartbreaking. It’s really been hard on all of us.”

The news team was so concerned with hygiene and safety that one man – Geoff Mabberly – was there solely to keep tabs on the crew and ensure their safety. He insisted upon everyone staying in the same hotel as a “safe zone,” and had chlorine and disinfectant wipes at the ready at all times.

“I’m just constantly looking at what they’re touching, where they’re going, where they’re standing, where they’re moving . . . [and] try and protect them from that next move,” he said.

The 21-day quarantine period is standard procedure for anyone leaving an Ebola-afflicted country, Logan said.