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Eighteen suspected Ebola patients escape after treatment tent is set on fire for a second time in Congo
Angry residents of a town at the epicenter of the Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo attacked and burned a tent that was part of a health center where people are being treated for the virus, the staff there said Saturday.
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According to PBS News’s source item, Eighteen suspected Ebola patients escape after treatment tent is set on fire for a second time in Congo, Angry residents of a town at the epicenter of the Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo attacked and burned a tent that was part of a health center where people are being treated for the virus, the staff there said Saturday.
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