It is a detail that will haunt anyone who reads it. A mother in rural Kenya spent 48 hours searching for her 14-year-old son after he fell ill during the violent protests that erupted against an Ebola quarantine zone. She found him dead, alone, on the floor of a makeshift clinic that had been abandoned by staff fleeing the unrest.
This is not a statistic. This is the human cost of fear. The protests, which began last week when villagers torched a containment centre, were sparked by misinformation and distrust of aid workers.
But amid the chaos, UK medics remain safe, holed up in a fortified compound. Their safety is a relief. But for one mother, the quarantine was never about the virus.
It was about losing her child to a system she never trusted in the first place.
