KASSANDA, Uganda (AP) — The recent explosion of Ebola virus cases in a Ugandan rural community began when defiant residents exhumed a body at night, undoing the work of a safe burial team in ...

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Workers wearing protective clothing bury Agnes Mbambu who died of Ebola, the 50-year-old grandmother of the 5-year-old boy who became Ebola's first cross-border victim, in the village of Karambi, near ...

The burial of Mbambu, Uganda’s second Ebola victim, originally was meant to take place some 20 kilometers (12 miles) away, near her father’s grave.

Health workers and other responders are threatened as often as three or four times a week in the country. And efforts to bring security are proving difficult.

Health workers and other responders are threatened as often as three or four times a week in the country. And efforts to bring security are proving difficult.

Just a few weeks later another burial team in a nearby city was less fortunate. A crowd pelted them with rocks. "Two of the team members were seriously injured," notes Attia. The DRC's government ...

Health workers and other responders are threatened as often as three or four times a week in Democratic Republic of the Congo. And efforts to bring security are proving difficult.

Since the beginning of the outbreak, more than 180 specially trained Red Cross safe and dignified burial volunteers have carried out 162 burials in North Kivu.

It is estimated that dignified burials prevented between 1,411 and 10,452 cases of Ebola EPA The work of the burial teams is thought to have played a major role in reducing the impact of the Ebola ...