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]]> In a dark cloud of violence and distrust, the EBOLA outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is surging out of control.

A Cameroonian doctor working the World Health Organization had died in an attack on an EBOLA treatment centre in Butembo.

EBOLA has killed nearly 900 people in the Eastern DRC in the past nine months.

The spike in new infections this month has been the highest in this outbreak which is second largest on the planet.

Locals who feel the symptoms of the hemorrhagic disease refuse to go treatment centers, fearing they will die or be killed.

Locals have chased off foreign health workers, claiming they brought EBOLA to the DRC and are  there to make money.

Political suspicion is at fever pitch because area was excluded from the voting process last December on account of the EBOLA outbreak.

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