Ebola's Shunned Heroes: The Women Bringing Up the Bodies in Sierra Leone Aug 17, 2016 at 12:27 PM EDT ...

With armed Liberian soldiers standing guard, the highly infectious bodies — which had been transported from a morgue by truck amid the worst Ebola outbreak in history — were forced to wait in ...

Blue steel gates guard the back entrance to an Ebola treatment center, where new patients flood in faster than bodies are removed. Today, I met a burial team tasked with collecting and burning the ...

Ebola Bodies Are Infectious a Week After Death, Study Shows. 2 minute read. By Alexandra Sifferlin. February 13, 2015 11:40 AM EST. S cientists have known for some time that the closer a person ...

At the height of the Ebola outbreak, Garmai Sumo spent her days waking up at 5 a.m. to collect dead bodies from the streets of Monrovia. She didn’t return home until midnight. Her 8-year-old son ...

Ebola virus disease is a rare but often deadly condition that causes fever, body aches, diarrhea, and sometimes bleeding inside and outside the body. It's caused by viruses commonly called Ebola ...

Ebola continued to take a toll in Africa on Saturday. Riot police in Monrovia, Liberia quelled a demonstration that blocked one of the nation's busiest highways Saturday as an angry crowd ...

Liberia was declared Ebola-free this weekend, marking a major milestone in the fight against the epidemic in West Africa, where it killed more than 10,000. But for survivors, the disease can still ...

The bodies of Ebola victims are extremely infectious, and contact with them has been a major cause of the disease's transmission. Photograph by Pete Muller, Prime for National Geographic ...

How It Feels to Have Ebola: 'It's Like Your Body Doesn't Belong to You Anymore' Published Oct 06, 2014 at 1:38 PM EDT Updated Mar 02, 2016 at 12:15 AM EST Dr. Senga Omeonga, a surgeon in Liberia ...

Health officials in Sierra Leone fear a major Ebola outbreak may have gone largely unreported until now in a remote district where the World Health Organization (WHO) said scores of bodies piled ...

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.