Thank you for the link about one health team killed in one village in one country. (The comment to which I was replying, not posted by you, mentioned "health teams," plural, that were killed, without specifying a place.) The link you kindly shared reports,
"Eight members of a team trying to raise awareness about Ebola have been killed by villagers using machetes and clubs in Guinea, officials say.
"Some of the bodies - of health workers, local officials and journalists - were found in a septic tank in a village school near the city of Nzerekore."
Reading this, I'm not entirely sure whether or not any Western people were part of the group who visited the village. The participant here to whom I was replying referred specifically to
a tough battle to get people to trust Western medical teams
after previously writing
have you ever considered that maybe there's a reason people don't trust the US government to act ethically or in their interests?
I have considered that possibility, and that is why I am looking for evidence. Where is the evidence that people in west Africa specifically distrust the United States as a source of medical aid more than they distrust their own local officials or modernity in general? (The west Africans I know locally, by definition people who have traveled to the United States to settle and work here, don't seem to have a general attitude of distrust of the United States government. Many of the health care workers who cared for my late dad in the years he was paralyzed after a spinal cord injury were nurses and nursing aids from Liberia.)
I appreciate your follow-up to my question. I'd like to see more on-point journalistic sources from other people who have commented in this thread.
AFTER EDIT: I was aware of the news story from National Public Radio[1] submitted to open this thread (of course!) about one area in Liberia that has enjoyed success in stopping spread of ebola as I asked the questions above in the thread. Fear of Westerners does not appear to be general in west Africa, not even in areas infected by ebola. That's why I think some of the comments here seem so off-topic. They refer to nothing in the article.
You had me until I read the article. Then I came back to the link and saw that the article is from the Mirror, widely known to be a completely unreliable tabloid newspaper dealing in sensationalism rather than careful field-based reporting.
"Eight members of a team trying to raise awareness about Ebola have been killed by villagers using machetes and clubs in Guinea, officials say.
"Some of the bodies - of health workers, local officials and journalists - were found in a septic tank in a village school near the city of Nzerekore."
Reading this, I'm not entirely sure whether or not any Western people were part of the group who visited the village. The participant here to whom I was replying referred specifically to
a tough battle to get people to trust Western medical teams
after previously writing
have you ever considered that maybe there's a reason people don't trust the US government to act ethically or in their interests?
I have considered that possibility, and that is why I am looking for evidence. Where is the evidence that people in west Africa specifically distrust the United States as a source of medical aid more than they distrust their own local officials or modernity in general? (The west Africans I know locally, by definition people who have traveled to the United States to settle and work here, don't seem to have a general attitude of distrust of the United States government. Many of the health care workers who cared for my late dad in the years he was paralyzed after a spinal cord injury were nurses and nursing aids from Liberia.)
I appreciate your follow-up to my question. I'd like to see more on-point journalistic sources from other people who have commented in this thread.
AFTER EDIT: I was aware of the news story from National Public Radio[1] submitted to open this thread (of course!) about one area in Liberia that has enjoyed success in stopping spread of ebola as I asked the questions above in the thread. Fear of Westerners does not appear to be general in west Africa, not even in areas infected by ebola. That's why I think some of the comments here seem so off-topic. They refer to nothing in the article.
[1] http://www.npr.org/blogs/goatsandsoda/2014/10/06/354054915/f...