Belgian nuns serving the community were also infected, and two of them died, along with a Zairian nurse, after the group was transported to Kinshasa.

The virus surfaced in the Yambuku Mission Hospital, an upcountry clinic run by Belgian nuns.

Although they disliked Europe on principle, a few newspaper stories about the rape of Belgian nuns and they would want to stand up to the bully.

"I thought, perhaps, Huns raped by Belgian nuns, to encourage women to resist the beast."

March 29 - Jeanine Deckers, Belgian nun and singer (b. 1933)

It swept through the Yambuku Hospital's nursing staff, killing most of the nurses, and then it hit the Belgian nuns.

We got a sick Belgian nun and a friend with an Iranian doctor.

On TV screens across the world appeared the faces of a young African boy, and a white-clad Belgian nun.

Eighteen Belgian nuns and lay brothers abandoned a hilltop hospital for the insane, leaving behind 200 patients, The Associated Press reported.

The only recent item in pop music he could tolerate was "Dominique," an odd hit recorded by an angel-voiced Belgian nun.