Declan Walsh
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486 appearances
8 recordings
4 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 8 Jul
Declan Walsh’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Morning, Clare.
That's right.
Yeah, it's kind of hard to find a bright spot in an Ebola outbreak, particularly one as serious as this one.
All the indications are that this is already the third largest Ebola outbreak on record, and it could become, experts think, the biggest ever.
And a big part of the problem is that it was detected so late
Experts now think it may have started circulating as early as January, but it was only declared in May.
That means the effort to push it back is way, way behind.
The efforts are way behind the outbreak.
And so in this frantic scramble that's going on to contain this outbreak, one of the key things that has to happen are what they call safe and dignified burials of people who've died from Ebola, because the body of a person who has just died from the disease is extremely contagious.
And unfortunately, local burial customs in
many parts of Africa and certainly in eastern DR Congo often involve mourners you know touching the remains of their loved one before the body is placed in the ground.
So I
I came across these groups of Red Cross volunteers who are leading the way, really, in carrying out these burials, which involves both retrieving the bodies of people who've just died, disinfecting them, placing them into a heavy-duty body bag, and then eventually leading the funeral and placing the body safely in the ground.
Yeah, they've kind of borne the brunt of public...
frustration and fear over the outbreak because the outbreak was spreading for so long.
And, you know, people were dying in these communities and they didn't really know why.
They thought it was malaria.
They thought it was typhoid fever.
But people did notice that, you know, people were dying in greater numbers.
They couldn't explain why.
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