Health/volunteer workers fighting spread of Ebola Virus
Disease in Guinea are still under attack. On Tuesday, a Red Cross team was
attacked while collecting bodies believed to be infected with Ebola in
southeastern Guinea. One Red Cross worker is recovering after being wounded in
in the neck in Tuesday's attack in Forecariah, according to Benoit Carpentier.
Family members of the dead initially set upon the six
volunteers and vandalized their cars, said Mariam Barry, a resident. Eventually
a crowd gathered and headed to the regional health office, where they threw
rocks at the building.
The attack is the most recent in a series that have plagued
teams working to bury bodies, provide information about Ebola and disinfect
public places. The most shocking to date was the abduction and killing last
week of a team of several health officials and journalists in Guinea who were
educating people on how to avoid contracting Ebola.
There are deeply held beliefs about how dead bodies should
be treated and buried in the region and teams that are forced to interfere with
those practices are often targeted, said the Red Cross spokesman, Carpentier.
Much of the resistance is in remote, insular areas, where attitudes change
slowly — a difficult task even on issues that aren't so sensitive as burials.
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