Fighting Ebola and Misinformation at the Heart of the Epidemic: “I Believed What My Neighbors Said, that Those Who Went to Treatment Centers Didn’t Get Out Alive”

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From the health center of Mungwalu in Ituri, province of the northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) where the epicenter of the current Ebola outbreak is concentrated, only blackened walls and carbonized equipment remain. Just a few days ago, the place was receiving patients and was a center of information about the virus. But suddenly, the inhabitants, who were furious and convinced that the disease was invented or exaggerated, burn…