DR CONGO: Rebel attack halts Ebola work
Ebola prevention activities have been suspended in the Democratic Republic of Congo city of Beni after a deadly rebel attack. Treatment centres will stay open but vaccinations and the tracing of people who have been in contact with suspected Ebola patients have stopped for now. One hundred people have died in the current outbreak in […]
FILE PHOTO: Health officials attending to patients in Congo
Ebola prevention activities have been suspended in the Democratic Republic of Congo city of Beni after a deadly rebel attack.
Treatment centres will stay open but vaccinations and the tracing of people who have been in contact with suspected Ebola patients have stopped for now.
One hundred people have died in the current outbreak in the east of the country, the health ministry says.
The rebel attack in Beni started on Saturday afternoon and lasted for several hours. Eighteen people died including 14 civilians, the army says.
Local sources say the Allied Democratic Forces, a Ugandan militant group active in the area since the 1990s, was behind the attack, but this has not been confirmed.