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Residents burn Ebola treatment center in Congo as anger grows over the outbreak
People set fire to an Ebola treatment center in a town at the heart of the outbreak in eastern Congo on Thursday after being stopped from retrieving the body of a local man, a witness and a senior police officer said, as fear and anger grow over a health crisis that doctors are struggling to contain.
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According to PBS News’s source item, Residents burn Ebola treatment center in Congo as anger grows over the outbreak, People set fire to an Ebola treatment center in a town at the heart of the outbreak in eastern Congo on Thursday after being stopped from retrieving the body of a local man, a witness and a senior police officer said, as fear and anger grow over a health crisis that doctors are struggling to contain.
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- Residents burn Ebola treatment center in Congo as anger grows over the outbreakPBS News - 2026-05-21T22:48:39+00:00
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