http://news.msn.com/world/sierra-leone-ebola-burial-team-attacked-despite-lockdown
Recently, there has been an outbreak of Ebola in Sierra Leone. Residents have been ordered to stay inside while volunteers educate the people about the disease, isolate the sick, and remove the dead. This past Saturday, while a burial team was doing their duty, a group of "youths" tried to disrupt the burial. Due to this, the burial team has now been ordered to have a stronger presence. Neighboring places, such as Siberia, have had to put up temporary community quarantines; more than 562 people have already died within Sierra Leone.Some have criticized their lockdown measures, so now the U.S. plans to loan aid.
The article didn't say why the "youths" were attempting to disrupt the burial and I don't know the opinions and beliefs of the people in Sierra Leone. For all I know, the way the burial teams are handling the dead could be against the people's beliefs or religion. Also, outbreaks like this are pretty serious, so I would think that by now people would know how to deal with them. With every outbreak I know of from history, it usually ends with a lot of lives lost. Hopefully Sierra Leone will have better luck with their outbreak of Ebola and there will be more order with how the actions are carried out.
Definitely strange why they would disrupt it, may have something to do with religion like you said. The Ebola outbreak has been getting worse; 100's of 1000's of lives have been lost. They are dealing with it as much as they can.
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