Several days this month, zero cases were reported, but cases have surged after attacks on health workers and facilities. Residents have accused Congolese and United Nations forces of failing to do enough to protect civilians from the rebels who fight for control of the region’s vast mineral wealth. The latest rebel attack outside Beni killed 19 people, the United Nations said on Wednesday. Far from the capital, Kinshasa, some traumatized residents in the densely populated border region near Uganda and Rwanda are wary of outsiders, further complicating the containment work in a part of Congo that had never recorded the Ebola virus before. Despite two promising new Ebola vaccines, health workers continue to battle misinformation and reluctance to seek treatment for the virus that is largely spread via close contact with the bodily fluids of infected people, including the dead.

Source: New York Times November 28, 2019 13:41 UTC