[IrishRainy]

So are they saying that EACH of the 157 "healers" claim to have healed "hundreds if not thousands" of Marburg patients?

If so, YIKES!

[IrishRainy]

It's ridiculous that we have to read between the lines in order to get any information out of these groups, or wait for them to slip up, such as the 4000 mattresses story.

[THEUPMAN]

I really think that when they are giving out so-called numbers here, they are ONLY counting the ones treated by them in a hospital. They have to know



and I am sure that only cases that have been labratory confirmed are counted ... that was part of the initial administrative reclassification.

[wildandcrazyrussian]

I read it that they were doing their herbal remedy as a supposed preventative rather than live cases.

From post 1611 above (google translation):
But for many inhabitants of Uige, l'hôpital provincial remainder synonymous with death. Not only because the patients die there, but also because l'hôpital is l'un principal hearths of l'epidemy. With l'origine, they are d'abord the children of the service of pediatry who died, then their mothers, then the personnel of health - 16 lost the life and the disease is spread with their close relations.

"Lorsqu'il has there as many death, people always seek a culprit" , explains Pasteur Alberto Moisés, in front of the teams of MSF and world l'Organisation of health (WHO) which come to seek a body in the barrio of Pedreira. "They say that Marburg is in l'hôpital and that whoever s'en approach dies. Many people fled in Luanda (the capital) or towards the villages."

... To convince the population that l'isolement patients is necessary s'apparente to a task herculéenne. A team of MSF recently organized a meeting with the representatives of the barrio of Pedreira. L'importance d'amener the cases with l'hôpital - even s'il n'y has any - treatment was discussed during hours. C'est then qu'un traditional guerissor intervened: "J'ai a remedy. And j'ai already cured five people ", claimed it, unable to however give the name d'une only. Suddenly, all the participants in the meeting - including those which seemed the most convinced of the d'isoler need the patients - started to ask that the traditional remedy be applied. Two short sentences had been enough to reverse the course of the meeting.

[FYREDEUS]

If that was actually true then we might as well write Angola off...they're TOAST...

But I think it's more likely the 'witch doctors' are just claiming such numbers to attract 'business'.