Residents of a town at the epicenter of the Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo attacked and burned part of a health center where people are being treated for the virus, and 18 people suspected of infection left the facility, a local hospital director said Saturday. It was the second such attack in the region in a week.

Unidentified people arrived at the clinic in Mongbwalu on Friday night and set fire to a tent set up for suspected and confirmed Ebola cases by the Doctors Without Borders humanitarian group, Dr. Richard Lokudi, director of the Mongbwalu General Reference Hospital, told The Associated Press.

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    A lot of US black people refused vaccines, but the government syphilis experiments haven’t been forgotten, either. And I personally know plenty of people of varying skin tones who refused, because of that or no reason. Our government has tested diseases and vaccines on both military personnel and prisoners, iirc.