Mamadi Kourouma, a volunteer with the Red Cross Society of Guinea, is extremely busy this morning. He and his team have hardly finished burying a man who died from Ebola in the cemetery of Dixin, in the heart of the Guinean capital, when his phone rings again. Kourouma is told to return immediately to the MSF treatment centre in Donka, where a family has just authorized the burial of one of their sons, another victim to this highly contagious and indiscriminate disease.
"This is the fourth burial this morning," says Kourouma. He looks exhausted. "My team has had an average of two burials every day since September."
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