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...Sister Floralba Rondi, 71, who happened to be attending at the operation on a man named Kimfumu last month, when doctors thought they were just dealing with a perforated ulcer. When they opened him up, however, his gut was dissolving. By the time he died two days later of extensive hemorrhaging, Sister Floralba was already running a high fever. She was treated at the hospital, but when her condition worsened, three of her best friends -- Sister Dinarosa, Sister Clarangela Ghilardi, 64, and Sister Danielangela Sorti, 47 -- put her in the back of their four-wheel drive car and drove...
...Sister Floralba had lived in Kikwit most of her life. She was widely known and deeply loved, for her medical skill and her kindness. She often found clothes for the very poor, and food. When she died her body was carried all through the hospital, and then through town to the cathedral, where she lay in an open coffin for two days so her friends could view the body. They stood over her and wept, caressed her face, sang her praises. It was the end of April, and no one knew what had killed her. But they would soon find...
...only 20 people left in the 350-bed facility, raising fears that patients had fled, taking the virus with them. By week's end, cases were being reported in the outlying villages of Mosango, Bonga-Yasa and Vanga. And thousands of miles away, in Bergamo, Italy, two sisters of Floralba Rondi, the nun who helped operate on Kimfumu, sat in medical quarantine. They were waiting to see if they too had been exposed when they visited Kikwit for their sister's funeral. "It's been a week of prayer," said Rosanna Rondi to an Italian newspaper...
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