Everyone is afraid of the dead, so the funeral business is slow.
MONROVIA, Liberia — It’s late in the afternoon, and there are plenty of places to park on Lynch Street.
“Casket Row,” like so many of the capital’s usually bustling commercial streets, is essentially empty. Since the outbreak of Ebola, and the state of emergency that followed, the overcrowded city’s congestion has thinned. Shops are open, but few customers browse inside. Most of the people bustling around the city’s major market most days are sellers.
Ebola is Killing Liberia’s Coffin Business
