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.

Former Ebola burial worker Ezekiel Kalapelee sits outside of his home in Montserrado, Liberia. The 23-year-old had to hide his work from his family at first and was asked to leave his uncle’s ...

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 ...

People in Ebola-hit eastern DR Congo are struggling to come to terms with high-security burials that are part of a hard-pressed strategy to roll back the disease.

Ebola has killed more than 2,000 people in Sierra Leone and unsafe burials may be responsible for up to 70 percent of new infections, experts say. (Abbas Dulleh ~ Associated Press file) ...

There are currently 142 confirmed Ebola cases and 35 probable infections linked to the outbreak, which started Aug. 1 and has resulted in 113 deaths.. Eleven cases are still under investigation.

Ebola treatment beds prevented 57,000 Ebola cases and 40,000 deaths in Sierra Leone ...

WHO Ebola expert Pierre Formenty says at least one in five infections occur during burials. The guidelines give step-by-step advice to health workers for both Christian and Muslim burials.