A burial team discovers a man thought to have died from Ebola was actually alive in Liberia
APC news agency journalist has become an eyewitness of surprising and at the same time frightening events. The man who was supposed to have died from Ebola virus awaked after almost being buried, in Monrovia, Liberia.
The unbelievable accident took place when the journalist together with his producer saw a burial team working along the roadway surrounded by crowds of angry locals. They watched as the burial team suited up and approached the body lying against a wall.
A crowd watches as a burial team discovers a man thought to be dead
The man was immediately unwrapped and put back on the ground. Although the man was alive he looked like he would only last a few more hours. After awhile an ambulance pulled up and a separate team of health workers loaded him into the back. The crowd went wild cheering.
A community leader said they had been trying to get help for the dead man for days, but no ambulance ever came. And only when the man died, a burial team came in an hour. “We couldn’t get him help when he was alive. They only come when you die,” a community leader said.
2014 Ebola epidemic is the largest in history, affecting multiple countries in West Africa. A small number of cases in Lagos and Port Harcourt, Nigeria, have been associated with a man from Liberia who traveled to Lagos and died from Ebola. The epidemic began in Guinea in December 2013 and spread to Liberia, Sierra Leone, Nigeria and Senegal.
As of 29 September 2014, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported a total of 7,192 suspected cases and 3,286 deaths (3,988 cases and 1,954 deaths having been laboratory confirmed). Many experts believe that the official numbers substantially understate the size of the outbreak, due in part to community resistance to reporting cases, and a lack of personnel and equipment to investigate reports of the disease.
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