Mob Burns Congo Ebola Center as Rare Strain Spreads

Suspected Ebola victims and hospital staff were directly endangered by the mob violence and destruction of the isolation ward treating the worst cases.

In Bunia, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a rare and vaccine-less strain of Ebola has found fertile ground not only in the bodies of the sick but in the fractured space between institutional medicine and communal grief. When hundreds stormed a hospital demanding the return of a suspected victim's body and burned the isolation ward that had been built to contain the outbreak, they revealed something older and harder than any pathogen: the wound of distrust. Detected perhaps two months too late, spreading without the tools that have tamed other variants, this outbreak now unfolds in

Mob Burns Congo Ebola Center as Rare Strain Spreads

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