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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]11.13 Colin Freeman spoke to the British doctor, Benjamin Black, fighting the devastating Ebola outbreak in west Africa who said belief in witchcraft is hampering the fight to stop the spread of the deadly disease.

Benjamin Black, 32, a volunteer with the charity Médecins Sans Frontières in Sierra Leone, said some of those in infected areas were not seeking medical treatment as they thought the disease was the work of sorcerers.

Belief in witchcraft and traditional medicine is still prevalent in parts of west Africa, particularly the remote rural areas of Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia where the outbreak has been concentrated.oncentrated.

Dr Black, who completed a four-day stint earlier this week at an Ebola treatment clinic in Kailahun, near Sierra Leone’s northern border with Guinea, said: “There is a section of population here who simply don’t believe Ebola is real, they think it is witchcraft and so they don’t come to the treatment centres. 
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/10999981/Ebola-virus-outbreak-live.html

Probably many cases unreported.[/quote]

They have no understanding of viruses either. They resist people in those containment suits who come to get ebola patients and take them to isolation. Who can blame them. They also insist on washing the corpses for burial instead of cremating them.[/quote]

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