Eighteen suspected Ebola patients flee after treatment tent burned in DRC attack (pbs.org)
0xBASE INTEL BRIEF
- Eighteen suspected Ebola patients escaped after a treatment tent was burned in Mongbwalu
- Second attack on an Ebola facility in eastern DRC within a week
- WHO upgrades risk to DRC to 'very high'; 82 confirmed cases, 7 deaths
- Three Red Cross volunteers died from Ebola, likely infected in late March
"In Mongbwalu, eastern DRC, residents attacked and set fire to a Doctors Without Borders treatment tent for the second time in a week. Eighteen suspected Ebola patients fled and remain unaccounted for. No injuries reported. The WHO now assesses the risk to DRC as "very high," with 82 confirmed cases and 7 deaths. Three Red Cross volunteers died in Mongbwalu, suspectedly from Ebola contracted in late March, pushing back the outbreak timeline. The U.S. banned green-card holders from DRC, Uganda, and South Sudan."
no comments yet.