00:01As family and neighbors grieve, local emergency health personnel carefully and respectfully
00:06handle the highly infectious remains of a child victim of Ebola.
00:11An emotional moment made more difficult by a dearth of resources and by disinformation.
00:18There are rumors. This is the first time this community has faced a situation like this.
00:26There has never been an epidemic of this magnitude in the region.
00:34People are now saying the disease came from this or that personality in the region.
00:43And now they have taken action.
00:49Action in the form of an angry mob attacking this hospital demanding the bodies of relatives who died from the
00:56Ebola virus.
00:57Then burning down medical aid tents from the international group Doctors Without Borders. Staffers evacuated.
01:04In the chaos, some 18 Ebola patients fled and blended back into the city.
01:11A search is on to bring them back in hopes they haven't spread the virus further.
01:18At first, when there were deaths, people talked about the coffins being a problem.
01:23And even those who had seen the coffins spread those rumors.
01:31That was the story at first. People were talking about a coffin that kills people. And then people started dying.
01:40Another rumor says that emergency personnel are spreading sickness via radio antennae on their vehicles.
01:47Even though people are dying, they don't believe Ebola exists. That's the first challenge.
01:54At the hospital where that first challenge, Ebola's existence, has been confirmed again and again and again,
02:00they're hoping a pharmaceutical team can quickly develop a vaccine for this strain of the disease to prevent further spread.
02:09So with these people, they're hoping to recognize endangered 100% of the disease.
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