{"id":499325,"date":"2026-06-14T14:24:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T14:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/499325\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T14:24:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T14:24:13","slug":"health-workers-struggle-to-contain-ebola-in-congo-camps-as-distrust-grows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/499325\/","title":{"rendered":"Health workers struggle to contain Ebola in Congo camps as distrust grows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NIZI, Democratic Republic of Congo \u2013 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 \u200bbreak chains of transmission.<\/p>\n<p>But the workers \u2014 from the provincial health ministry, the World Health Organization and \u200cother aid \u200cagencies \u2014 were forced away by angry locals who denied that the two women \u200bhad died from Ebola, said Jean-Claude Lonzama, the chief doctor for the local health zone of Nizi, a heavily populated mining area.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUp to this day, we are not able to follow up on the contacts \u2060of these cases,\u201d Lonzama told Reuters on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NIZI, Democratic Republic of Congo \u2013 After the Kpangba displacement camp became the first in this part of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":499326,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[255,8044,21059,103,61,60,1357,3668],"class_list":["post-499325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-africa","tag-democratic-republic-of-congo","tag-ebola","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-medicine","tag-who"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}