He cited the difficult conditions faced by aid staff working on disinfection, safe burials, support of health facilities, and those providing vaccinations to treat Ebola. "It's a minority of groups but sometimes they react violently and target response workers," Marcoux said. "They refuse treatment, they refuse followups, they refuse vaccinations and they refuse assistance for the [safe] burials." "We saw bullet marks on the wall," Yao added, referring to the attack on the Ebola treatment centre in Butembo last week. "It will definitively affect the prognosis of people surviving Ebola," Yao said.

Source: CBC News March 05, 2019 00:11 UTC