Residents in eastern Congo have attacked and burned part of a health center treating Ebola patients.

Residents of a town at the epicenter of the Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo attacked and burned part of a health center where people are being treated for the virus, and 18 people suspected of infection left the facility, a local hospital director said Saturday. It was the second such attack in the region in a week.

Unidentified people arrived at the clinic in Mongbwalu on Friday night and set fire to a tent set up for suspected and confirmed Ebola cases by the Doctors Without Borders humanitarian group, Dr. Richard Lokudi, director of the Mongbwalu General Reference Hospital, told The Associated Press.

  • otp@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    1 hour ago

    Or if you’re in the US, you refuse to take a vaccine because it’s going to allow the government to track you, and if you feel sick you swallow bunches of horse paste and you defy orders not to go to church because it’s your town, your church, and you’ll be damned if you let those bastards in Washington break your community with some fake disease like covid.

    I don’t recall all that other stuff happening during covid, like the government abducting a bunch of people and you couldn’t get the corpse back from the half of them that died…

    • aramis87@fedia.io
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      7 minutes ago

      You missed the transition from “ebola in Africa” in the first part of the paragraph to a parallel distrustful reaction in the US during covid. If it helps, that transition point is the part of the sentence that reads, “Or if you’re in the US”.