'Fear prevents good management of the epidemic. Fear makes it difficult to break the chain of transmission. What was needed was to break the fear.' Fighting Ebola is hard but in the Congo mistrust and fear is making it harder:
Butembo, North Kivu, DR Congo When Ebola first struck this city of more than a 100,000 people last September, many here didn't believe it was real.
As the disease latched onto families and spread through tightly packed neighborhoods, rumors began spreading of organ harvesting and political conspiracies, even as more people got sick and died.When the ambulances came to take people away - they would never see them again. h1.pg-headline { font-weight: bold; } .zn-body-text h3 { font-weight: bold; clear:left; } "They didn't know where they were taking them.
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