{"id":599360,"date":"2026-07-22T23:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T23:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/599360\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T23:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T23:03:08","slug":"angry-mobs-are-attacking-health-workers-in-congo-it-will-only-make-the-ebola-outbreak-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/599360\/","title":{"rendered":"Angry Mobs Are Attacking Health Workers in Congo. It Will Only Make the Ebola Outbreak Worse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">TIME has reached out to the Congolese Health Ministry for comment.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018We are all at risk if we don\u2019t stop it\u2019<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">Sebushishe, who is Congolese and grew up in Goma, says that the risks of infection and violence are not enough to keep him from continuing his work.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">\u201cI know that if we don&#8217;t stop this outbreak from wherever it has reached, it will spread farther,\u201d he tells TIME. \u201cIt will reach our own families and ourselves. So we are all at risk if we don&#8217;t stop it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">\u201cViruses don\u2019t respect borders and can use weaknesses in our global health security systems to thrive and propagate. So it\u2019s in the best interest of everyone\u2014Americans included\u2014to keep these systems strong,\u201d Pham <a href=\"https:\/\/hsph.harvard.edu\/news\/ebolas-spread-fueled-by-cuts-in-humanitarian-aid\/\" title=\"undefined\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">Sebushishe says his team has made massive strides in increasing trust and cooperation from the community by including them in decision-making.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">\u201cWe involve the community from the conception, from the planning of each of the projects,\u201d he says. When they are building a treatment center, for instance, they bring in community leaders, show them the building site, ask for feedback, and ask them to help spread the message to others in the community.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TIME has reached out to the Congolese Health Ministry for comment. \u2018We are all at risk if we&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":599361,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[275],"tags":[35431,36812,47128,18,135,475,474,19,17],"class_list":["post-599360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-congo","tag-democratic-republic-of-congo","tag-ebola","tag-eire","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116966130126257961","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}