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Too Many in Congo's Ebola Outbreak Are Dying at Home

Associated Press

   BENI, CONGO - Two-month-old Lahya Kathembo became an orphan in a day.
   Her mother succumbed to Ebola on a Saturday morning. By sunset her
   father was dead, too.
   They had been sick for more than a week before health workers finally
   persuaded them to seek treatment, neighbors said. They believed their
   illness was the work of people jealous about their newborn daughter, a
   community organizer said, and sought the guidance of a traditional
   spiritual healer.

   The Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo is ravaging Beni, a sprawling city
   of some 600,000, in large part because so many of the sick are choosing
   to stay at home. In doing so, they unknowingly infect caregivers and
   those who mourn them.

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