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.

A vaccine for the Ebola virus, after too many deaths and bureaucratic apathy, the Wall Street Journal writes in an editorial.

Ebola victims are most contagious after they've died, making the burial problems in West Africa especially concerning.

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

A key part of reducing the number of Ebola deaths was ensuring safe burials, research says.

A burial team, using precautions required to handle Ebola victims, removes a deceased 27-year-old man from an apartment building in Freetown.

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone — Burial teams responsible for collecting the corpses of Ebola victims in Sierra Leone returned to work Wednesday, one day after going on strike because of a delay in ...

Ebola is at its most virulent in the hours and days after death—a single unsafe burial can infect dozens—making the safe burial policy key to stamping out the stubborn embers of the outbreak.

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.

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.

Workers employed by Sierra Leone’s Ministry of Health to bury Ebola victims took drastic action in a dispute over pay, abandoning the bodies of 15 people.