"She knew she had to put plastic gloves on, but for a few seconds she was touching him with her hands, to help him get off the bed and on to a chair.
"That is how she got it. A few days later, that man died.
“It was on August 3, when we came home from church, that she complained of shivering, of feeling chilly.”
Oliver explained how Layson was determined not to be a burden, and so tried to get better with medicine she bought from a local chemist.
The middle-class couple, who wed in 2007, had always been active, outgoing members of the community.
Four years ago, they used their savings for a dream holiday in the United States, and Layson hankered after another trip abroad.
He proudly showed me a photograph of Layson on his mobile phone.
He snapped her posing in a snowbound street, a treasured memento. Layson desperately didn’t want to be ill.
She entered nursing in 2005, and had been promoted several times to obtain a senior position.
After Oliver lost his job at the UN, she became the family’s breadwinner. Now he has no idea how he will support their son.
“On the Monday evening she said she was too hot,” Oliver continued.
“She wanted cold water on a towel to put on her forehead. By Wednesday she had lost her appetite.
"On Thursday the weakness had got worse and she told me she felt nauseous.
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