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Ebola in DR Congo: WHO warns of impact of armed attacks

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Ebola in DR Congo: WHO warns of impact of armed attacks

The World Health Organization warns that insecurity in eastern DR Congo is affecting the Ebola response, after an ADF attack on several health centres in North Kivu displaced thousands of people, including contacts. The WHO now considers insecurity one of the main obstacles to containing the outbreak, according to RFI.

The Cantine-Aloya attack in North Kivu killed 66 civilians, including three health workers, and three health facilities were looted and burned. More than 1,000 contacts have since been lost to follow-up and three confirmed cases are missing, according to the WHO.

Two weeks earlier, a nurse was killed and another health worker seriously injured while responding to an Ebola alert in Tshopo province. The WHO considers these attacks both a humanitarian emergency and a setback for the response to the outbreak.

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