ABOVE: A checkpoint set up in Port Loko, Sierra Leone, during an outbreak of Ebola that started in 2014. Photo taken May 20, 2015.
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Medecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) was forced to pause its work at two treatment centers in the heart of a current Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo after they were badly damaged by two separate attacks. As a result of such violence, the “Ebola response [is] failing to gain the upper hand on the epidemic,” the organization says in a press release.
The outbreak, which began last August, has killed at least 569 people, according to the World Health Organization.
In speaking with reporters today (March 7), MSF’s International President Joanne Liu describes the current atmosphere as “toxic” due to the lack of trust the community has in public health authorities, Reuters reports. To date, there have been more than 30 incidents ...