Panic Hits Home Of Dallas Ebola Victim

African community torn apart by fear, condemnation

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JEROME R. CORSI

NEW YORK – According to newspaper reports in Africa, the community where Thomas Eric Duncan lived in Liberia, the Block C area of the 72nd SKD Boulevard neighborhood, is in a panic, with three people linked to the pregnant woman he helped to take to the hospital now themselves dead from Ebola, while several others are quarantined.

Front Page Africa reported Friday in an article entitled “In Duncan’s Old Neighborhood: Panic, More Deaths, Infections” that 9-year-old Mercy Kennedy is being harassed by Duncan’s friends and relatives because her mother, Marie Wreh, is among a string of deaths traced to the 19-year-old pregnant woman Duncan brought to the hospital in Liberia to die of Ebola.

Mercy’s mother had taken care of “patient zero,” Marthaline Williams, who was six months pregnant before she died, washing William’s clothes and even falling over her corpse when she died on Sept. 16, according to family members.

Now, Mercy Kennedy is harassed when she and her friends go to fetch water, as women in the community yell at her to leave the neighborhood well alone, for fear she might infect the well and their children.

The 72nd community where Duncan lived was in a state of shock mixed with panic after they received news that Duncan, 42, had been diagnosed with the deadly Ebola virus in the United States, reported Wade C. L. Williams, writing in FrontPageAfricaOnline.com.

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