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, and the mortality rate is high – two-thirds of patients have died, against a historic average of 50 percent.

“The authorities have to assess what’s working in the response against Ebola – a whole year has gone by,” said John Banyene, a civil society leader. “Our livestock farmers sell their cattle in DR Congo. Rebel groups and poachers go back and forth across the border. The risks are high.”The good news is that concerns about funding have eased since the UN’s World Health Organization on July 17 declared the outbreak a “public health emergency of international concern,” a rare designation only used for the gravest epidemics.

In a region where many people survive on just a few dollars a day, their recruitment has made them a target for jealousy and extortion, sometimes lethally so. Seven health workers have been murdered and more than 50 have been seriously hurt, according to an unofficial tally.is undergoing a leadership change, with Tshisekedi himself taking over the reins — a move that caused Health Minister Oly Ilunga to quit.

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