From the New York Times, it's the headlines. I'm Tracy Mumford. Today's Monday, June 1st. Here's what we're covering.

When I walked into the Ebola ward in Mangualaulhu General Hospital, the first thing that struck me was how many people were walking around

without any form of protection. A handful of people were wearing rubber gloves. Some of them had

pulled a scarf or part of their sweater across their mouths. But for the most part, people were

wearing nothing. And that meant that they were at great risk of catching the virus that causes Ebola themselves.

Declan Walsh is the Times Chief Africa correspondent.

He's been on the ground in the Democratic Republic of Congo,

where the Ebola outbreak has now ballooned to the third largest on record,

and where hospitals are struggling to keep up.

In that small ward that we visited, we found a five-year-old boy who had just come in the

night before with incessant bleeding from his nose.

He was lying on the bed with a tissue stuffed into his nose to staunch the bleeding

with his dad watching over him.

But just two beds away from that boy

lay the body of a 21-year-old woman who had died during the night and her remains had

still not been removed. Now, the bodies of people who have just died from Ebola are

incredibly infectious, yet it was just covered by a thin sheet that had been pulled over.

That only added to that sense of danger inside that treatment facility.

And in fact, people were being infected at the hospital

because when we went into the next ward, we found the lab technician

who himself had gotten apparently infected with Ebola as part of his job taking

samples from other people. And we later learned that seven other staff members from that hospital

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