Ebola Outbreak: Health Team 'found Dead' In Guinea

[Flashermac]

Officials in Guinea searching for a team of health workers and journalists who went missing while trying to raise awareness of Ebola have found several bodies.

 

A spokesman for Guinea's government said the bodies included those of three journalists in the team.

 

They went missing after being attacked on Tuesday in a village near the southern city of Nzerekore.

 

More than 2,600 people have now died from the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.

 

It is the world's worst outbreak of the deadly disease, with officials warning that more than 20,000 people could ultimately be infected.

 

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On Thursday night, government spokesman Albert Damantang Camara said eight bodies had been found, including those of three journalists.

 

He said they had been recovered from the septic tank of a primary school in the village, adding that the victims had been "killed in cold blood by the villagers".

 

The reason for the killings is unclear, but correspondents say many people in the region distrust health officials and have refused to co-operate with authorities, fearing that a diagnosis means certain death.

 

Last month, riots erupted in the area of Guinea where the health team went missing after rumours that medics who were disinfecting a market were contaminating people.

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http://www.bbc.com/n...africa-29256443

 

 

Good old Africa.

[Coss]

The article I saw said that the team were killed because the locals had a widespread fear and belief that Ebola was something the whites had dreamed up to get rid of the blacks, ergo, kill anyone that was associated with it.

 

Lack of education.

 

http://www.latimes.com/world/africa/la-fg-attack-ebola-guinea-outreach-20140918-story.html

[jitagawn]

The world in so many ways remains a very primitive place.

[Flashermac]

For instance, the US Congress ...

[Plainsdrifter]

Civilization is nothing more than a very thin veneer covering the actual primitive state of things, as we see in West Africa.