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The Kabia family mourns as the body of their 1-day-old baby is removed by a member of a safe burial team outside their home in the Hill Cut neighborhood of Freetown, Sierra Leone on Wednesday, November 26, 2014. While the baby was not a confirmed Ebola case, the government of Sierra Leone mandates that all deaths in heavily Ebola-affected districts be treated as potential Ebola cases and buried in accordance with strict safety procedures. The bodies of Ebola victims are extremely infections and contact with them is a major source of disease transmission. (Pete Muller/Prime for National Geographic)

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The Kabia family mourns as the body of their 1-day-old baby is removed by a member of a safe burial team outside their home in the Hill Cut neighborhood of Freetown, Sierra Leone on Wednesday, November 26, 2014. While the baby was not a confirmed Ebola case, the government of Sierra Leone mandates that all deaths in heavily Ebola-affected districts be treated as potential Ebola cases and buried in accordance with strict safety procedures. The bodies of Ebola victims are extremely infections and contact with them is a major source of disease transmission. (Pete Muller/Prime for National Geographic)