Fear of Ebola Opens Wary Villages to Outsiders in Guinea (Great news to stopping outbreak)

[uppityperson]

This is very good news as it has been a big problem contributing to the outbreak.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/17/world/africa/fear-of-ebola-opens-wary-villages-to-outsiders-in-guinea.html?_r=0

DANDANO, Guinea — “Bring out your sick!” the chief shouted angrily at the crowd, shaking his fist and warning of illness and death for the whole village if it did not obey. “Don’t hide them!” he yelled. “If you don’t expose them, you will suffer!”

Slowly, haggard and dazed, a procession trudged to the muddy village center — a student, a minibus driver, a 5-year-old girl and farmers — with bloodshot eyes betraying the symptoms of Ebola. They walked alone, two village elders flanking them at a wary distance. The crowd edged away fearfully.

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This remote, mountainous part of Guinea is where the world’s worst Ebola outbreak began nearly a year ago, in villages hidden by dense forest, high reeds — and a long history of resistance to the distant central government. Throughout the epidemic, villages like this one have been steadfastly cut off from the outside world. Residents in the region have killed local officials proselytizing about Ebola, blocked barely passable roads with trees and vehemently refused help from outsiders, viewing them as propagators of the virus in moon suits of protective gear.

But now, in Guinea’s inaccessible Forest Region, where staunch resistance has stymied efforts to fight the outbreak since its inception, villagers are finally opening up, surrendering their sick and dead after being battered by the virus....(more@ link)

[uppityperson]

1. kick for good news

[jwirr]

2. It is sad to say but their panic is very much like what we were seeing here. And the protective gear

did not help them any. Foreigners from outer space!