The women on Ebola outbreak burial crews in Africa hurled themselves into the path of the virus when nearly everyone else ran away. Now they have little support for a normal life.

Burial workers from the Sierra Leone Ministry of Health perform an oral swab test for Ebola on the Kabia family's deceased day-old daughter as a precaution, even though she is unlikely to have ...

The BBC spent the day with Red Cross Burial Team 9 in the capital of Sierra Leone The death toll from Ebola in west Africa has this week passed 8,000. More than 20,000 people have been infected in ...

Some Ebola victims are sent for burial straight from a treatment center, which minimizes improper handling and exposure to family members. In these cases, as the Red Cross explained, ...

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone — Sierra Leone burial teams have gone back to work one day after organizing a strike over pay and abandoning the dead bodies of Ebola victims in the capital.. In ...

At least 20 per cent of new Ebola infections occur during burials, the World Health Organization said in issuing a new funeral manual developed by an interfaith panel. Content.

The Ebola burial teams are comprised of 600 workers in groups of 12 per team. Dead bodies were being left in homes and on the streets of the capital Freetown, the Sierra Leone Broadcasting ...

The Ebola epidemic of 2014-15 claimed 11,300 lives in West Africa, spread the virus as far as New York and Texas, and exposed the failures of the world public-health system—but at least the ...

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone — Burial teams in Sierra Leone abandoned the dead bodies of Ebola victims in the capital after going on strike this week, though an official claimed Wednesday the ...

Ebola burial teams in Sierra Leone are extorting money from families of the bereaved to give the dead safe burials, a senior health official said, leading to an increase in illegal funerals.

The fight against Ebola in Liberia got some welcome news – with a little caution. The number of new cases in the nation appears to be declining, with fewer burials, plateauing lab confirmations ...

Burial workers in Sierra Leone have dumped bodies in the street outside a hospital in protest at authorities' failure to pay bonuses for handling Ebola victims.