Angry residents of a town in eastern Congo attacked and burned a health center where people were being treated for Ebola, causing 18 suspected cases to flee and leaving staff in panic.
The attack, which occurred on Friday night, was the second such incident in the region in a week, with a treatment center in another town being burned down on Thursday after family members were banned from retrieving the body of a local man suspected to have died of Ebola.
The World Health Organization has categorized the outbreak as posing a 'very high' risk for Congo, with 82 confirmed cases and seven deaths, but the risk of the disease spreading globally remains low.
There is no available vaccine for the Bundibugyo virus, a rare type of Ebola, which has spread undetected for weeks in Congo's Ituri province.
