In west Africa today, as in early 20th-century Manchuria or England at the time of the Black Death, travellers are often unwelcome. When eight healthcare workers and journalists showed up at a village near Guinea’s second city of Nzerekore in September, they planned to explain how to protect against the Ebola virus that has killed at least 4,500 people this year. Instead they were set upon by locals wielding machetes and clubs. Some of the visitors’ bodies were later found in the village latrine.
和20世纪早期黑死病流行时的满洲及英国一样,在今天的西非,旅行者往往不受欢迎。今年9月,8名医务工作者及记者来到几内亚第二大城市恩泽雷科雷(Nzerekore)附近的一个村庄,原本计划告诉村民应采取哪些措施来防范埃博拉病毒(这种病毒今年已导致至少4500人丧生),然而,当地人却手持大砍刀和棍棒攻击了他们。后来,人们在村里的茅坑里找到了几个遇难者的遗体。