Indoneasian Villagers Infected With Bird Flu Flee Doctors & Hospitals.

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This is a bad development.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060529/ap_on_re_as/bird_flu_black_magic;_ylt=Al_yiiCLdBsi4VgrjsWCmZus0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3czJjNGZoBHNlYwM3NTE-

Concluding that Tamiflu is death, & Bird Flu is actually Black Magic, some Indonesian villagers are fleeing hospitals, many are avoiding Western doctors, & possibly hiding cases of Bird Flu from authorities (this last is a conclusion drawn by implication, based on statements made in the article).

Some neighbors insist, however, that bird flu is not to blame. They are convinced black magic is at work, that ghosts now haunt their quiet Christian community of about 1,500 people.

Many are too scared to even pass by the family’s houses, and some who live nearby are awakened by nightmares that they will be the next to die.

“We are so afraid just to step into that house,” said a 37-year-old woman who identified herself only as Sembining. “We can’t tell what we’re afraid of — we’re just afraid.”

As their neighbors started dying, confusion and mistrust prompted villagers to stop cooperating with officials. Many refused to give blood samples, fearing they would later fall ill and suffer the fate of their neighbors.

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“We are afraid to be sent to an isolation room. You know an isolation room is a slaughtering room — a room for the people who want to die,” said villager Caranta Perangin-Angin. “Therefore we are afraid of (letting doctors) take blood. Taking the blood, for me, symbolizes going to die.”

Some citizens think the world will judge or blame them for being sick.

These circumstances are approaching the Worst-Case scenario for breeding a Bird Flu that can go from person to person. And if it happens, the locals are gonna hide it 'til it’s too late.