They are all young men, in their early twenties who, just a few short weeks ago, would have been studying, going to work at a construction site, or ferrying passengers around on their taxi motorbikes.
Today, they are burying bodies, one after the other, sometimes up to eight or nine a day. This is how life has changed since the Ebola virus disease arrived in Kailahun district, in eastern Sierra Leone.
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