Ebola threatens a way of life

摘要

Since September, the Ebola virus has stalked the villages and towns along the Kamakwie-Makeni Road, a rutted, red-dirt track that serves as the main artery for a string of villages in the western part of Sierra Leone's Bombali District. Yeli Sanda, a village just a few kilometres outside the districts capital city of Makeni, was the first place to be hit. Over the following months, more than 40 people in the settlement of about 700 became infected; 22 died. In November, the virus infected a woman in Tambiama, about 11 km up the road. A friend who visited her acquired the virus and carried it another 1.5 km to the village of Mayata. She and at least five others there have died.