Health workers in Congo’s Ebola outbreak attacked weekly
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Congo’s health ministry says health teams in the latest Ebola outbreak are attacked about three or four times a week by wary residents, a level of violence unseen in the country’s nine previous outbreaks of the deadly virus.
The coordinator of the outbreak response, Dr. Ndjoloko Tambwe Bathe, spoke to reporters on Monday after a weekend marked by deadly rebel attacks and violent protests.
Two health workers were killed by rebels in the first such deaths sinc
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