First blog assignment on History of Public Health

Health Care Workers were killed in the process of educating the public about Ebola in Conakry, Guinea. 

nypost.com/.../group-of-aid-workers-fighting-ebola-killed-by-african-vil...Sep 19, 2014 - CONAKRY, Guinea — The team of health officials accompanied by journalists ... them with knives and rocks and killing eight of them, witnesses say. ...radio journalists who had been covering the awareness campaigning.

Assignment: 

Could this event have been prevented by applying lessons from the previous epidemics ?

What is your reaction about this news ? 

Post your comments, opinions and questions for discussion with your colleagues and faculty.

Your comments are expected between now and exactly 2 weeks from the time of this post. Any comment received after 12 noon of 17th October, 2014 becomes invalid.

        

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