Ebola epidemic in the Congo has already claimed hundreds of Deaths. However, in order to prevent the spread, have a helper lead the fight against something else: rumors and disbelief.
A couple of young women strip in search of fire wood through the dense Bush. In large Bundles, they drag the Branches to the back on the dusty road in their hidden village. Between the simple mud huts of all-terrain vehicles: A team of experts has come to inform people about the Ebola epidemic, which is raging in the Region Mulekera.
“Some people have already understood that there is the disease. But it is precisely in the villages, many will never believe it. If we say to them, let you vaccinate, throw it at us often with stones or beat us. Then we give up and go back. Our work is really difficult,” says Avie Mbusa, which is part of the Team. He was a self-infected with Ebola and survived with much luck. Now the 22-year-old UNICEF is on the way to his country people to educate. But not so easy to convince, like Bertrant from the city of Beni:
“I personally have not a single Ebola case. They say that here in the city, dozens of people die. This is simply not true, there’s nothing. The get people with a bit of a fever to the hospital, and once you are dead. We don’t understand.”