Guinea’s national Ebola education team believed to be abducted or dead

[kiva]

A group of health officials charged with informing the public of how they can protect themselves from the hemorrhagic fever Ebola has disappeared in the Guinean village of Wome. A report from the BBC said that authorities fear the six people may have been abducted or killed.

The team of three doctors and three journalists reportedly went missing after they were attacked on Tuesday in a village near the city of Nzerekore.

One journalist managed to escape the ambush by villagers, who greeted the health team with a hail of stones. She was able to call fellow reporters to tell them what had happened and that she was hiding, but could hear the attackers looking for her.

That was the last anyone outside of Wome heard of the team.

Hopefully still alive.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/09/guineas-national-ebola-education-team-believed-to-be-abducted-or-dead/

[shenmue]

1. Mercy

[Adsos Letter]

2. All dead

If this is the story I read earlier, their bodies were dumped in a village latrine Three had their throats cut.

I'll have to look for the link...

Found it
https://news.yahoo.com/eight-bodies-found-attack-guinea-ebola-education-team-204810695.html;_ylt=AwrTHRqKpBtUiw4AI4dx.9w4;_ylu=X3oDMTE0aWxyOWtuBHNlYwNzcgRwb3MDMQRjb2xvA2dxMQR2dGlkA01PVVMxODlfMQ--

[kiva]

3. Please do,

I hope you are wrong but I'm afraid you're not

[Adsos Letter]

4. Found it, added it to my original post.

Very, very sad. And frightening.

[kiva]

8. Just...damn.

So sad and unnecessary.

[geek tragedy]

5. all dead, killed by ignorant barbarians

People of Guinea better hope the Old Testament god isn't real . . .

[Quantess]

6. Why?

I wonder why they were targeted.

[Adsos Letter]

10. My guess would be the plethora of conspiracy theories

making the rounds in the region.

[AngryAmish]

12. assholes of 4chan are spreading rumors on african chat boards

Look up Ebola-Chan. Basically they said that white doctors created ebola since they worship a death cult goddes named Ebola-Chan.

[Adsos Letter]

16. I can't see how they will control this outbreak

before it depopulates western Africa.

I claim no expertise in disease control, but it is difficult for me to imagine how this plague can be stopped given the superstition/ignorance/fear getting in the way of things?

Do you quarantine whole nation states/regions of continents?

[FrodosPet]

17. 4chan is popular in Guinea?

Something tells me the ravings of a few 4chan geeks is pretty insignificant compared to the natural fear and superstitions of the isolated Guinean villagers.

Of course, I ignore 4chan as much as humanly possible, and I am not a Guinean villager, so I may be wrong.

[freshwest]

18. Yes, that was mentioned on another thread a while back about the little boy left on the beach...

[Lefta Dissenter]

7. Oh, my. :(

So tragic. They simply wanted to save lives, and gave their own, instead.

It's heartbreaking.

[etherealtruth]

9. Oh no ... this is so horrible

I have nothing else to say.

[BrotherIvan]

11. Oh no.....

That's so tragic.

[defacto7]

13. And the wages of the villagers actions

is their own death. They just don't know it.

[caseymoz]

14. Hysteria.

People's fear is high and it's making its own stories. Their fear is feeding on itself now.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

15. See what happens when people claim science is "evil"?