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MSF, or what we better recognize as Doctors Without Borders, has posted the complete and ongoing diary/blog from Zoe Young, the healthcare worker at Ground Zero in DRC's Ebola outbreak.  It can be found at: http://www.msf.ca/blogs/ZoeY.php and is required reading.  Here's a passage:

By the time I got back to the isolation unit, the third patient had died. He had been really very bad all day and his family had been outside crying and talking to him. His father had been in for a visit to say goodbye and they had cut two small pieces of string, one around his ankle and one around his wrist. Later in the morning they had asked Barbara to cut the last string which was round his tummy. It was awful to see: they were just waiting for him to die.

I went back to the cemetery and got two coffins into their graves before another torrential storm started with lightening that I could see streaking across the sky.