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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Noella Mwanza in Bunia and Carlos Mureithi in Nairobi

Lives and incomes lost as Ebola takes toll on Bunia’s public-facing workers

A body is carried by health workers in full hazmat outfits
A body is taken to the morgue of Nyankunde medical centre for burial procedures by healthcare teams on Saturday 13 June. Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images

Justin Keno watches more than 400 pupils stream through the Nelson Mandela school’s gate each morning, and wonders which of them might be carrying Ebola.

The institution’s principal has done everything he can to prevent the spread of the virus: installing hand-washing basins at the entrance, providing alcohol-based hand rub for parents, making pupils bring packed lunches instead of eating in the canteen, and banning food sellers from outside the gates.

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