Ebola health team murdered by Guinea villagers

Ebola is still poorly understood by many West Africans
Ebola is still poorly understood by many West Africans
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A group of health workers, journalists and officials have been murdered in Guinea by an angry mob who believed that they were spreading the ebola virus, not trying to stop it.

The bodies of the team, who had been on a mission to educate the villagers about ebola, were found thrown down the village latrine, or killed in the bush. Some had their throats slit.

Ebola is still not understood in many parts of West Africa, despite almost nine months since it claimed its first victim of this outbreak, a woman who had slaughtered bushmeat in remote Guinea.

Moses Mamy, who ran a clinic in southeast Guinea, was one of those who died when angry local people in the village of Wome attacked the health