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...teams' job was to figure out who might have been infected already and to warn people at risk. At first doctors thought the victims could all be traced back to a 36-year-old lab technician named Kimfumu, who died at Kikwit's main hospital last month. But once they discovered the case of the woman infected even earlier at the Kikwit 2 maternity hospital, they realized the crisis was worse than they had imagined. "It's a huge epidemic," Heyman says of the previously unrecorded cases, "and it's got nothing to do with the main hospital." By week...
Zairian health officials said 97 people have died from the Ebola virus so far. One of the country's leading virologists, Dr. Jean-Jacques Muyembe Tamfun, who helped identify the virus in 1976, criticized the government's quarantines and roadblocks as ineffective. On Saturday the quarantine on the Kikwit region was officially lifted...
...Poverelle buried Sister Dinarosa Belleri last week on a hot morning in the plague city of Kikwit. The pallbearers wore green gowns, heavy boots, plastic goggles and white helmets as they pushed a rickety stretcher over the potholes on the road from the main hospital to the Cathedral of St. Francois Xavier. She was the fourth sister to die of the fever, and by this time the nuns had learned to take no chances...
...missionaries of Kikwit provide the only semblance of social services in a town where the government exists mainly to extort money. The Italian Poverelle (Little Sisters of the Poor) were the only ones to work in the hospital, and so they were the ones to start dying before they knew how to save themselves. Sister Dinarosa, 48, was the chief administrative nurse. She ran the generator, scrounged the medicines and grabbed supplies from any source she could find to keep the hospital functioning. "Anything that is working here," said Belgian doctor Barbara Kerst?ins, "was run by the nuns...
...Mosango. She was unconscious when they arrived; the sisters stayed at her bedside all night, praying and soothing and holding her arm so the intravenous drip would stay in place. Sister Floralba died within a few days, and all three sisters caring for her brought the body back to Kikwit...