The virus has infected more than 1,000 people in eastern parts of the country since July, with many refusing vaccines, resisting treatment and concealing symptoms
New study shows a quarter of people surveyed in the hotspots in the eastern part of the country believe the virus is not realDakar — A quarter of people surveyed in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Ebola hotspots believed the virus was not real, a study said on Wednesday, as the world’s second-biggest outbreak spreads.
“It’s been three years now that we saw a declining level of trust in those actors, and the Ebola crisis comes on top of that and accelerates the distrust,” said Patrick Vinck, author of the study published in British medical journal The Lancet. The virus has infected 1,022 people and killed 639 in eastern DRC so far, according to the health ministry. In recent weeks, there has been on average eight new cases per day.
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