{"id":276377,"date":"2019-05-18T20:08:13","date_gmt":"2019-05-19T00:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMifmh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmJiYy5jb20vbmV3cy9hdi93b3JsZC1hZnJpY2EtNDgzMTM0NjIvdGhlLXJ1bW91ci10aGF0LWxlZC10by1tZWRpY2FsLXJlc2VhcmNoZXJzLWluLWV0aGlvcGlhLWJlaW5nLWtpbGxlZC1ieS1hLW1vYtIBAA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-20T11:27:53","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T15:27:53","slug":"bbc-a-rumour-that-researchers-came-to-poison-children-led-a-mob-to-kill-two-scientists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/276377","title":{"rendered":"BBC: a rumour that researchers came to poison children led a mob to kill two scientists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2019 the BBC reported that two medical researchers in Ethiopia were killed by a mob after a rumour spread that they had gone to a school to poison children.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-602499\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/health-stpauls-1280.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"BBC: a rumour that researchers came to poison children led a mob to kill two scientists\" \/>\n<p>Health workers and researchers already work under suspicion in places where vaccination campaigns and blood sampling collide with fear, politics, and weak public trust. A false rumour can turn a clinic visit into a death sentence within hours.<\/p>\n<p>The case sits inside a wider Horn pattern in which medical teams have been attacked during outbreaks or research visits. It is not only a crime story. It is a warning about how quickly misinformation can erase scientific work.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as health and science archive, the BBC file dates a named mob killing tied to a poison rumour and belongs beside later coverage of vaccine hesitancy and attacks on health staff.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/av\/world-africa-48313462\/the-rumour-that-led-to-medical-researchers-in-ethiopia-being-killed-by-a-mob\">BBC News<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rumour that led to medical researchers in Ethiopia being killed by a mob&nbsp;&nbsp;BBC NewsTwo scientists were killed by a mob in Ethiopia, who believed they went to a school to poison children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":602499,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/health-stpauls-1280.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-19TH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276377"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754821,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276377\/revisions\/754821"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}