Ebola outbreak: how witchdoctors and corpses being kissed are spreading the disease

Traditional healers and witchdoctors in West Africa are contributing to the spread of Ebola, the Times reports.

According to the newspaper, a significant number of people are claiming to be able to heal the virus through witchcraft, and are encouraging locals to eschew Western medicine in favour of their own costly techniques.

Terrified at the looming threat, hundreds of people from Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea have therefore been handing over large sums of cash in return for spells, potions and advice from those claiming to have the antidote to the deathly disease, which has killed over 3,000 people this year. Read more