Here in the hellish Ebola zone of West Africa, the victims’ remains have to be cremated quickly as even the dead are contagious.
This is the heart-breaking drudgery of life in disease-racked Liberia, where the worst outbreak of this violent disease in history claims fresh lives daily.
The World Health Organisation admitted that the official death toll of 1,145 in the region “vastly underestimates the magnitude of the outbreak”.
For Oliver, a former UN aid worker, the swiftness of his beautiful wife’s decline remains impossible to understand.
Speaking through bursts of stifled sobs, he details with amazing clarity how Layson went down with the incredibly contagious Ebola virus.
I talk to Oliver from outside the cab of his 4x4 vehicle where he sits – through fear of getting too near to him.
My instinct would be to offer a sympathetic hand, but I have been told about the risks of getting too close to someone who might have embraced his Ebola-stricken wife 10 days before.
“I’m trying to be strong, but it’s so hard,” Oliver, 36, stammered. “She died on Saturday; yesterday evening.
“She caught Ebola at work, at the Catholic Hospital here in Monrovia. The hospital administrator had got ill.
“He tested positive for Ebola.
“It was my wife’s job to give him an ECG examination, to put the pads on his body.
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