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Sierra Leone Trains New Ebola Burial Team

A spokesman for Sierra Leone’s government says a newly trained burial team will soon be deployed to those places most affected by the Ebola outbreak. Abdulai Bayraytay said, “They are ready to go into the field. In fact, …we have given the current burial team a day off per week [with pay] so [they will] not be exhausted…” Members of the new burial team, Bayraytay said, have been trained as hygienists to educate citizens about how the disease is spread. His comments come after...

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