An eight-man team sent to educate people in southern Guinea about the Ebola virus was killed on Tuesday and dumped in a village latrine. The group included medical officers, journalists, local administers and a preacher.
Guinea’s Prime Minister Mohamed Said Fofana said Friday that six people have been arrested in connection with the killings.
“The eight bodies were found in the village latrine. Three of them had their throats slit,” government spokesman Damantang Albert Camara said, the Telegraph reported Friday.
The World Health Organization believes that nearly $1 billion must be spent to contain the virus and avoid a “human catastrophe,” The Associated Press reported Sept. 16.
“We risk a humanitarian catastrophe if we do not see rapid action to scale up, not just the Ebola response, but also the provision of essential services and the support platform to put that in place,” said Dr. Bruce Aylward, WHO’s assistant director-general, on Tuesday.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon agreed with WHO’s cost estimate on Thursday and called for the world to take “unprecedented” action. The United States has also sent 3,000 troops to assist a a U.N. emergency mission created to address the virus.
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