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Ebola-Response Workers Killed in

Attacks Force Withdrawal From Critical
DRC Region
Helen Branswell,STAT
2 minutos

Four health care workers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

were killed in two attacks last week, and six others were injured

Health care workers at an Ebola treatment center in Butembo,

Democratic Republic of the Congo. Four workers were killed in

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attacks elsewhere in the country last week. Credit: Getty Images

Four people working for the Ebola containment effort in the

Democratic Republic of the Congo were killed overnight Thursday
in attacks on two locations where response teams were operating.
Another six people were injured in the violence, forcing the World
Health Organization and partner agencies to withdraw staff from a
strategically critical location, a senior WHO official said.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR(S)

Helen Branswell

Helen Branswell is STAT's infectious diseases and public health

reporter. She comes from the Canadian Press, where she was the
medical reporter for the past 15 years. Helen cut her infectious
diseases teeth during Toronto's SARS outbreak in 2003 and spent
the summer of 2004 embedded at the US Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention. In 2010-11 she was a Nieman Global
Health Fellow at Harvard, where she focused on polio eradication.
Warning: Helen asks lots of questions.

Credit: Nick Higgins

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