He screamed, “The village has killed me! The village has killed me!”ĮTIENNE OUAMOUNO: When my wife died, some women cleaned the house. Her husband, the father of the children, went crazy. At 2:30 AM, she had a miscarriage and died. I went to the house and found her in a room. He said “Augustine, open the door.” I said “What’s wrong?” He said, “My wife is bleeding.” He said, “All she does is bleed and bleed.” She was 7 months pregnant.ĪUGUSTINE MOMODOUNO, Village Medic: At 2:00 AM, Etienne knocked on my door. NARRATOR: Nobody knew what had killed 1-year old Emile Ouamouno. INTERVIEWER: At that time, had anyone died?ĮTIENNE OUAMOUNO: At first, I thought it was witchcraft. Nobody knows for sure, but the villagers now think that this is where it all began.ĬHILD: We lit a fire, and they fell from the tree. They had no idea that bats are suspected of carrying a deadly virus. NARRATOR: In December 2013, the children of Meliandou village discovered hundreds of bats nesting in a hollow tree. A boy went inside and hit them with his spear. One day we were crossing the river, and we heard strange noises. It was for real.ĬHILD: In our village, there’s a huge tree. ![]() Where am I? How did I end up here? Was this just a bad dream? But no, it wasn’t. It was like watching a zombie movie or something. So the guys in the suits wrestle him to the ground and put him in the back of the pickup. ![]() He’s followed by a lot of people- I don’t know, 100, 200 people, angry, telling us, “You have to take him down. ![]() I see he has picked up a rock and he’s waving it around to get some space. I could hear and see the crowd of people screaming and shouting. STEFAN LILJEGREN, Doctors Without Borders: I got a call saying that there is a walker on his way down to market.
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