BBC blog from the isolation center in Angola

A worker with Medicine Without Borders named Zoe Young is writing a web diary for BBC News from the isolation center in Angola, where they’re trying to contain the recent Marburg virus outbreak. You get something the news doesn’t usually provide: close contact. Zoe explaining to villagers without language how to put on a protective gear, the way those paper suits crinkle and steam up in unbearable heat, the delicate task of folding a still-infectious corpse into a body bag.

We walked into the high-risk area where the patients are kept. My specs and mask immediately fogged up so much that I couldn't really see.

I found that if I tilted my head and looked down my nose I could see through a small band at the bottom of my mask.

It was a horrible feeling being completely encased, crinkly sounds in my ears from the head protection, hot sticky hands under two pairs of gloves, tripping along because of my long rubber apron and not being able to see.