{"id":16969,"date":"2019-03-29T15:00:47","date_gmt":"2019-03-29T07:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=16969"},"modified":"2019-03-29T15:00:49","modified_gmt":"2019-03-29T07:00:49","slug":"ebola-disbelief-widespread-in-dr-congo-hotspots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=16969","title":{"rendered":"Ebola disbelief widespread in DR Congo hotspots"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KINSHASA, March 29 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; More than a quarter of people surveyed in Ebola-hit areas of the Democratic Republic of Congo told researchers they do not believe the disease exists.<br><br>Some 36% of respondents also believed that the disease had been fabricated to destabilise the country.<br><br>The authors of the study, published in the Lancet, said this mistrust was a factor in prolonging the epidemic.<br><br>The current outbreak started in August and more than 600 people have died, according to the health ministry.<br><br>More than 1,000 people have contracted the virus during the current outbreak, which is the second-largest ever recorded.<br><br>The study surveyed 961 people in the central Congolese cities of Beni and Butembo.<br><br>The lead author, Patrick Vinck, from Harvard Medical School, said the mistrust was having a deep impact.<br><br>&#8220;This means people are not taking patients to an Ebola centre and not reporting the disease to professionals, which has a direct influence on the risk of transmission,&#8221; he said.<br><br>Fewer than two-thirds of people questioned in the survey said they would take a vaccine for Ebola. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KINSHASA, March 29 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; More than a quarter of people surveyed in Ebola-hit areas of the Democratic Republic of Congo told researchers they do not believe the disease exists. Some 36% of respondents also believed that the disease had been fabricated to destabilise the country. The authors of the study, published in the Lancet, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16969"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}