“Ebola is already scary,” said one health worker. 'To have this on top of that is terrifying.'
By Siobhán O'Grady Siobhán O'Grady WorldViews reporter Email Bio Follow March 1 at 3:43 PM Health workers trying to contain a large Ebola outbreak in Congo are facing more than the threat of a deadly, fast-moving virus.
MSF evacuated its staff from the area, and all patients had to be moved from the facility and placed in a transit center. The Ministry of Health announced that four patients, who were highly contagious, are now missing. Part of what makes it even scarier is that health workers don’t always know who is targeting them. “We don’t know their motivation,” Newport said of the groups that attacked their clinics in the past week, noting that vaccination teams and other health workers have had rocks thrown at them before.
Last week, 85 percent of all new confirmed cases in Congo were diagnosed in Butembo and Katwa, the two areas where Doctors Without Borders’ Ebola services have now been suspended, she said. And part of what is most concerning to health-care workers there is that in about half those cases, presence of Ebola was not confirmed until after the patient had died, signaling that they had probably been sick for a long time. That increases the likelihood that they transmitted the virus to others.
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