One early patient, Hewlett learned, was pulled out of the village clinic because his family disbelieved the Ebola diagnosis and preferred relying on a traditional healer. After that patient died at home, unattended by medical personnel and uncured by the healer, things got testy. The healer pronounced that this man had been poisoned by sorcery and that the perpetrator was his older brother, a successful man working in a nearby village. The older brother was a teacher who had “risen” to become a school inspector and didn’t share the good fortune with his family. So again, as with ezanga among
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