Guinea Ebola Health Team Brutally Murdered

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According to BBC News Africa, nine members of a team trying to raise awareness about Ebola have been killed by villagers using machetes and clubs in Guinea, officials say..

The team disappeared after being pelted with stones by residents when they arrived in the village of Wome - in southern Guinea, where the Ebola outbreak was first recorded.

A journalist who managed to escape told reporters that she could hear villagers looking for them while she was hiding.

A government delegation, led by the health minister, had been dispatched to the region but they were unable to reach the village by road because a main bridge had been blocked.....read more

Are people now so fearful of the heath team? Could it also be because there are horrible stories circulating about how the infected are probably being maltreated?

I recently read a story about how an infected person in Liberia who left the quarantine centre in search of food in the market place.