VILLAGERS IN GUINEA KILLS 8 EBOLA AWARENESS WORKERS!

8 Ebola awareness workers including 3 journalists & 5 health workers have been killed by angry villagers on Tuesday Sept. 16th in Wome village, same village where the Ebola virus broke out early this year. They were killed while creating awareness and distributing flyers about Ebola, but the villagers, who believe the Ebola outbreak is a fabricated story, began throwing rocks at them. A journalist who escaped and later spoke to a radio station in Guinea, said residents who have always rebuffed government's effort to contain the spread of the virus, gathered around them, to insult them first, then later, physical assault where 8 people were killed. Damantang Albert Camara, a government official, confirmed that the bodies were dumped in a septic tank of a primary school and later found yesterday September 18^th, in which 3 out of them, had their throats slit.

Things like this can discourage people who want to help within the humanitarian sector. How can people let the frustration of an epidemic get to them so much that they started to attack to the extent of killing other health workers who have decided to risk their own lives to help rescue the situation? How will the families of the victim feel when they hear what has happened? The killers have done this in ignorance but what they don’t know is that they are ruining their chances of getting more help at local and international levels. This Epidemic will go someday the same way it has come and we should all be patient, considerate and tolerant of each other until we can live life once again void of fear and death.