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Ebola Is Outrunning Congo’s Trust Faster Than Its Health System

Zawadi Kavira Musubao, 27, lost her father and her sister to Ebola. Neighbours told her they had been poisoned. A pastor blamed evil spirits, and a healer’s potion did nothing. When she fell ill at the funeral, she was told she had been poisoned too. Her story is common in eastern Congo, and it helps explain why an outbreak past 10,000 confirmed cases, nearly half of them fatal, still spreads…

Ebola Is Outrunning Congo’s Trust Faster Than Its Health System

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