Saturday, February 14, 2015

Ebola Facility of Red Cross Attacked in Guinea

According to Reuters, general public attacked an Ebola treatment facility today (Saturday 14th February, 2015). Red Cross is facing such turmoils 2-3 times a week due to mistrust. A Guinean government official yesterday gave a statement that instead of curing, their team is involved in infecting a school of children with deadly Ebola virus.


Red Cross team was working in Ebola center along with a local charity organization Medecins Sans Frontieres. Incident happened around 400Km from Guinea Capital Conakry. A vehicle of NGO is set to ashes as result of anger among citizens.

Guinea is third largest country with Ebola reported cases and virus is spreading more rapidly than Sierra Leone. Virus has taken more than 2000 lives of patients out of 3000 and yet goes on. Infections increase daily and WHO reported that in last two weeks, it has doubled. Villagers also targeted burial team. It is dangerous as recent research showed that dead body contains live Ebola virus for 7 days.

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