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, ...

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 ...

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 Red Cross, which leads the Ebola burial operations in Sierra Leone, said the permits were completely illegal. “We bring these complaints to the NERC. It’s always coming up in meetings.

A slowdown in Liberia's Ebola outbreak and the continued rampant rate of infection in Sierra Leone may reflect contrasting ways the two countries are dealing with burials, the World Health ...

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.

BBC's global health correspondent Tulip Mazumdar spends a day with the Sierra Leone Red Cross Burial Team in the capital Freetown.