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Health workers struggle to contain Ebola in Congo camps as distrust grows

Health workers in the Democratic Republic of Congo are struggling to contain an Ebola outbreak in displacement camps as distrust grows among locals, who forced aid teams away after two women died from the virus in the Kpangba camp, preventing contact tracing.

read1 min publishedJun 14, 2026

NIZI, Democratic Republic of Congo – After the Kpangba displacement camp became the first in this part of war-torn Congo to record deaths from Ebola two weeks ago, health workers rushed to trace those who had come into contact with the deceased to break chains of transmission.

But the workers — from the provincial health ministry, the World Health Organization and other aid agencies — were forced away by angry locals who denied that the two women had died from Ebola, said Jean-Claude Lonzama, the chief doctor for the local health zone of Nizi, a heavily populated mining area.

“Up to this day, we are not able to follow up on the contacts of these cases,” Lonzama told Reuters on Saturday.

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