Declan Walsh

In other words, instead of allowing a lot of people to come and touch the body, the body will typically be disinfected.

It will be placed in a sealed bag.

And these workers will ensure that while there is a dignified burial, it's not going to turn into an event where many other people become infected.

So the teams of Red Cross workers trying to carry out these burials often run into the same kind of resistance.

They've been threatened.

They've been attacked.

Wow.

Because people...

effectively don't believe the virus exists or else they don't believe that it poses a threat to them.

Or frankly, I think they just feel overwhelmed by the scale of the calamity that has befallen their community.

And so they take it out again on the people who are trying to ensure that this disease doesn't spread even further.

It's huge.

When you talk to health officials or aid workers and say, what do you need to push this back?

The first thing, of course, they say is we need equipment.

We need protective equipment.

We need medicine.

We need funds.

The second thing they say is we need education.

We need an immediate, urgent effort to communicate to people about the nature of the danger that they faced.

It's very challenging, but there is precedent.