00:01People set fire to an Ebola hospital in the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo
00:07after relatives of a young man thought to have died from the virus were not allowed
00:12to take his body away for burial. Medical staff at Ramparo Hospital refused on the
00:18grounds that the body was highly contagious and would have to be buried under a special
00:23protocol. A health care worker was injured by a stone thrown by protesters before law
00:29enforcement intervened. The parents of the victim believed that he had died from typhoid
00:35rather than Ebola and that burying him would not have posed a risk. The attack reflects
00:40challenges authorities face while trying to curb the virus by using measures that might
00:45clash with local customs such as burial rights. Ramparo Hospital lies Nebunia, the epicenter
00:52of the Ebola outbreak, which has reportedly killed more than 130 people so far.
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