Ebola threat: Congo residents REFUSE medical treatment believing EXORCISM is cure

Wednesday, May 23, 2018
By Paul Martin

EBOLA is spreading through the Congo with patients refusing treatment believing the virus is the work of the devil.

By CIARAN MCGRATH
Express.co.uk
Wed, May 23, 2018

Instead of taking vaccines, many locals are turning to preachers to rid them of evil spirits, further hampering the efforts of health workers battling to top the spread of the deadly illness.

The World Health Organisation today said the world is on an “epidemiological knife edge”

But the warnings are not being heeded by some who believe prayer is the answer.

The paster of one evangelical church died last Wednesday several days after he “prayed” for an Ebola victim who went for him to help.

Nurse Julie Lobali, one of those on the frontline of the outbreak, and works in a hospital in the city of Mandaka, said: “Some sick people believe that the Ebola epidemic comes from sorcery – they refuse to be treated and prefer to pray.”

Since the outbreak – the ninth in the DRC’s history – which first emerged in the remote area of Bikoro on May 8, 51 cases of Ebola have been reported with 29 deaths.

Three people were earlier today reported to have escaped hospital quarantine, with two later found to have died and the third currently under observation by the World Health Organisation (WHO).

Mrs Lobali said one superstition prevalent in the city was the belief that Ebola began in Bikoro as “a curse on those who ate stolen meat”, referring to the bush meat, consisting of African wild game including monkeys and even apes.

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