{"id":4949,"date":"2014-08-21T16:50:58","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T09:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=4949"},"modified":"2014-08-21T16:51:09","modified_gmt":"2014-08-21T09:51:09","slug":"all-365-of-sierra-leones-ebola-related-deaths-pinned-on-one-healer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/all-365-of-sierra-leones-ebola-related-deaths-pinned-on-one-healer\/","title":{"rendered":"All 365 of Sierra Leone\u2019s Ebola-related deaths pinned on one healer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sierra Leone\u2019s Ebola crisis has been traced back to a single healer in an isolated border village, who had claimed to be in possession of special powers to cure the deadly disease that started penetrating the border, it has emerged.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe was claiming to have powers to heal Ebola. Cases from Guinea were crossing into Sierra Leone for treatment,\u201d top medical official, Mohamed Vandi, who was based in the crisis-struck Kenema district, told AFP.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe got infected and died. During her funeral, women around the other towns got infected,\u201d he told the agency. The woman was based in the eastern border village of Sokoma.<\/p>\n

Mourners at the funeral of the healer prompted a chain reaction of sorts, and what was initially a more confined outbreak materialized into a severe epidemic when, in June, the virus struck a city of 190,000 called Kenema…<\/p>\n

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South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa Sierra Leone<\/a> News<\/p>\n

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Sierra Leone\u2019s Ebola crisis has been traced back to a single healer in an isolated border village, who had claimed to be in possession of special powers to cure the deadly disease that started penetrating the border, it has emerged. \u201cShe was claiming to have powers to heal Ebola. Cases from Guinea were crossing into […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1109],"tags":[258,256,3723,1111,3713,3727,257,3725,4714,1135,254,3724,3726,4692],"class_list":["post-4949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sierra-leone","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-crisis","tag-ebola","tag-ebola-crisis","tag-kenema","tag-news","tag-powers-to-heal-ebola","tag-sierra-leone","tag-sierra-leone-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-special-powers-to-cure-the-deadly-disease","tag-village-of-sokoma","tag-west-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}