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An eyewitness and a senior police officer told The Associated Press that fear and anger are rising over a health crisis that doctors are trying to contain.
The arson attack reflects the difficulties faced by health workers trying to stop a rare Ebola virus by using strict measures that could clash with local traditions, such as funeral rites. The disease has been spreading for weeks in a region where adequate health facilities are lacking and many people are moving to escape armed conflict.
The bodies of those who died of Ebola can be highly contagious, causing it to spread further when people prepare them for burial and gather for funerals. The dangerous business of burying suspected victims is carried out by the authorities wherever possible, which can be met with protests from the victims’ families and friends.
There have been 160 suspicious deaths and 671 suspected cases in two provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Congolese officials said on Thursday. At the beginning of the week, the UN announced that there were two cases, one of which was a death, in neighboring Uganda.
But the World Health Organization said the outbreak was almost certainly much larger and also expressed concerns about the speed of its spread.
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