Attacks on health workers are making it difficult to contain the virus
THE GREATEST fear of most health workers battling Ebola is catching the deadly virus, which makes people gush blood from every orifice. But to Dr Richard Valery Mouzoko Kiboung, an epidemiologist from Cameroon working with the World Health Organisation , violence was also a pressing worry. Dr Mouzoko was stationed in Butembo, a city in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo and the centre of an Ebola outbreak that was detected nine months ago.
The WHO and other responders appeared to be getting a handle on the outbreak in January, but the violence has set their efforts back. The virus has infected nearly 1,400 people and killed nearly 900. In April the WHO said there was a very high risk that Ebola would spread, including to neighbouring countries such as Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi. Those countries have been asked to start vaccinating health workers and watch out for the virus.
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