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Medical staff at the emergency entrance of a hospital receive suspected Ebola patients in Guinea earlier today. AP/Press Association Images

Crowd attacks Ebola treatment centre

The violence took place in a town in Guinea where at least 14 people have died of the deadly disease.

OFFICIALS IN GUINEA are condemning an attack on a health center where Ebola patients are being isolated from the public.

In a government statement issued today, authorities said the support of aid groups such as Doctors Without Borders is essential to controlling the deadly disease.

The violence took place in the town of Macenta in southern Guinea where at least 14 people have died.

A total of 86 people have died so far from Ebola in Guinea and two other confirmed deaths have been reported in neighboring Liberia.

Aid workers have tried to inform people about how the disease is spread, though rumours and misinformation have led to panic amid the first outbreak ever in Guinea.

There is no cure for Ebola, which causes fever and severe bleeding.

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    Mute lilolil
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    Apr 5th 2014, 1:52 PM

    This is the last place I’d be attacking!!!

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    Mute Stephen Ramsey
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    Apr 5th 2014, 4:09 PM

    A lot of the third world is rife with superstition and distrust of western medicine. Quite often clinics will be blamed for cauaing a sickness and attacks ensue. It’s happening a lot at polio clinics

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    Mute Fergal Reid
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    Apr 5th 2014, 4:26 PM

    Well they’ll get what’s coming to them! Attacking an Ebola clinic. That’s like walking towards a mushroom cloud.

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    Mute Stephen Ramsey
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    Apr 5th 2014, 4:32 PM

    You would too if you thought the mushroom cloud would cure your radiation sickness and your, um, high-speed disintegration. The problem is that they’re misinformed, not that they’re criminals (unless they intend to steal and sell the medicine in which case they should probably be knee-capped but that wouldn’t seem to be what’s happening here).

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    Mute Lily
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    Apr 5th 2014, 1:48 PM

    Idiots. …

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    Mute HelaLaw
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    Apr 5th 2014, 3:18 PM

    Bit harsh to call them idiots.. They are misinformed and quite possibly uneducated enough to not understand the disease.. It must be terrifying for them especially as this disease is so horrific

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    Mute Lily
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    Apr 5th 2014, 4:03 PM

    They are idiots because they will not listen. They are being told, but they want to play the ‘blame game’ and are blaming the medical staff for spreading the disease. Hence the attack on the medical centre.

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    Mute Stephen Ramsey
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    Apr 5th 2014, 4:35 PM

    They are listening to the people they trust (who are likely misinformed, paranoid or distrustful of the west). The medics came around the same time as the disease, I can see how a tribal mentality might misinterperate that.

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    Mute Tinker Taylor
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    Apr 5th 2014, 2:15 PM

    Charging into an isolation hospital housing a deadly virus….thats a smart move!!

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    Mute cosmological
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    Apr 5th 2014, 1:55 PM

    This disease scares the hell out of me.

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    Mute Justin Devaney
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    Apr 5th 2014, 2:03 PM

    I got mild Ebola from a lamb rogan josh and 8 pints in a curry house in Brick Lane

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    Mute mart_n
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    Apr 5th 2014, 2:51 PM

    They’re uneducated and frightened.. a dangerous combination at the best of times.

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    Mute Fergal Reid
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    Apr 5th 2014, 4:27 PM

    Check that. Uneducated, frightened and now infected.

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    Mute Liam Lawless
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    Apr 5th 2014, 2:22 PM

    Africa…..

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    Mute Allison Smith
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    Apr 5th 2014, 2:31 PM

    What idiots
    Attacking a place thats trying to make people’s lives more comfortable before they die of a horrible disease.

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    Mute Dagnet Taggart
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    Apr 5th 2014, 2:08 PM

    Ebola,coming to an Irish airport …Soon!

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    Mute Mary Dundee
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    Apr 5th 2014, 4:52 PM

    I think the anger stems from the fact that they are probably quarantined and nobody allowed in meaning once they go in they don’t come out and families dont get to see their loved ones before they die. Even a corpse can transfer the disease …so I assume they have to cremate all infected bodies.

    scary disease considering there is no cure.

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    Mute Paul Carey
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    Apr 5th 2014, 3:00 PM

    I think Frank is coming from the view that these people want to kill the sick ones thus killing the hosts, in the hope of stopping the spread?

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    Mute Frank Mc Carthy
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    Apr 5th 2014, 1:51 PM

    I wouldn’t blame them.

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    Mute Glen
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    Apr 5th 2014, 1:55 PM

    Meaning ?

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    Mute Jeremy Usbourne
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    Apr 5th 2014, 1:55 PM

    Why?

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    Mute Les Rock
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    Apr 5th 2014, 1:59 PM

    What conspiracy theory do you have for this one Frank?

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    Mute Jason Davis
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    Apr 5th 2014, 2:01 PM

    Were the Ebola victims infected by the CIA/Mossad Frank? Or did the Americans and Israelis incite the riots?

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    Mute Sean Beep
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    Apr 5th 2014, 2:22 PM

    That don’t makes no sense Frank

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    Mute Ryan Freeman
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    Apr 5th 2014, 2:48 PM

    Ain’t nobody got time for that

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    Mute J. Dunn
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    Apr 5th 2014, 3:03 PM

    McCarthyism…

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    Mute peter
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    Apr 5th 2014, 10:42 PM

    I hope Rick and Daryl got away from the walkers unscathed

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