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Dread and Denial at Heart of Deadly DR Congo Ebola Outbreak

Health workers are isolating suspected patients as 322 cases and 88 deaths are reported in Mongbwalu, while delays and denial hinder containment.

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Unlike other residents of Mongbwalu, a town at the heart of the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's latest devastating Ebola outbreak, Laureine Sakiya believes that the blood-letting virus exists after seeing some of her neighbors die.
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Dread and denial at heart of deadly DR Congo Ebola outbreak

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The climate oscillates between fear and denial in Mongbwalu, while the dead accumulate.

·Montreal, Canada
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Ebola epidemic in the DRC "If it is true, may God protect us": at the epicentre of the Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the climate fluctuates between fear and denial, as the health catastrophe swells and the deaths accumulate. Read also Ebola epidemic: after being placed in isolation, the suspect patient hospitalized in the Netherlands received his results Mongbwalu, a city of some 130,000 inhabitants, is located in…

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The Straits Times broke the news in Singapore on Sunday, May 24, 2026.
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