FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — Burial teams in Sierra Leone have gone back to work one day after organizing a strike over pay and abandoning the dead bodies of Ebola victims in the capital.
In neighboring Liberia, however, health workers are threatening to strike if their demands for more money and safety equipment are not met by the end of the week.
Health workers are especially vulnerable to Ebola, which is spread by contact with the bodily fluids of infected people.
Liberia’s United Nations peacekeeping mission says an international member of its medical team has contracted Ebola, the second member of the mission to come down with the disease. The first died two weeks ago.
The U.N. says the mission is identifying and isolating others who may have been exposed and reviewing procedures to mitigate risk.
More than 3,400 people have been killed this year by the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, more than 10 percent of them have been health care workers.
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APPHOTO NIN103: Heath workers collect samples from the body of a person suspected to have died from the Ebola virus, as it lies on the street covered in leaves in Freetown, Sierra Leone, Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2014. Burial teams in Sierra Leone abandoned the bodies of Ebola victims in the capital after going on strike this week, though an official claimed Wednesday the situation had been resolved. (AP Photo/Tanya Bindra) (8 Oct 2014)
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APPHOTO NIN102: Health workers collect samples from a body suspected to have died from the Ebola virus, as it lies on the street covered in leaves in Freetown, Sierra Leone, Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2014. Burial teams in Sierra Leone abandoned the bodies of Ebola victims in the capital after going on strike this week, though an official claimed Wednesday the situation had been resolved. (AP Photo/Tanya Bindra) (8 Oct 2014)
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APPHOTO NIN101: Health workers in protective gear carry the body of a woman suspected to have died from Ebola virus, from a house in New Kru Town at the outskirt of Monrovia, Liberia, Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2014. Liberia has been among the hardest hit nations at the center of the long outbreak, which has killed more than 3,000 people, as of Friday, there had been 3,834 confirmed Ebola cases and 2,069 deaths in Liberia, according to the World Health Organization. Forty-four percent of those cases were reported in the past three weeks, a signal that the infectious disease is spreading. (AP Photo/Abbas Dulleh) (8 Oct 2014)
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APPHOTO NIN103: Health workers dressed in protective gear prepare to load the body of a woman suspected to have died from Ebola virus, in New Kru Town at the outskirt of Monrovia, Liberia, Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2014. Liberia has been among the hardest hit nations at the centre of the long outbreak, which has killed more than 3,000 people, as of Friday, there had been 3,834 confirmed Ebola cases and 2,069 deaths in Liberia, according to the World Health Organization. Forty-four percent of the Ebola cases were reported in the past three weeks, a signal that the infectious disease is spreading.(AP Photo/Abbas Dulleh) (8 Oct 2014)
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