An Ebola Treatment Center Was Burned Down As Congo’s Death Toll Passes 4,000

CONGO – Congo’s Ebola outbreak has killed more than 4,018 people, authorities said, as they struggle to contain what has become the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in history.

Some health workers, meanwhile, gathered at the epicenter in Ituri Province to demand payment for wages owed them. Some of the workers haven’t been paid for August and September, according to one of the protesters. Front-line workers have gone on strike several times since the outbreak began.

A senior U.N. official said an Ebola-hit displacement camp housing a transit center for infected patients was burned by soldiers earlier this week as they were looking for weapons, forcing 19,000 people in the camp to flee.
8,300 cases have been recorded since May 15.