After an eight-day journey, infectious disease specialist Laurens Liesenborghs (40) from the Institute for Tropical Medicine reached Bunia, the epicenter of the Ebola outbreak in Congo. He has been working on the fight against the epidemic for a week now. The Flemish Ebola doctor kept in daily contact with our reporter: “Some think that Ebola was invented by the government to make money.”
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EXCLUSIVE. Diary of Flemish Ebola doctor Laurens (40) in Congo: “Bodies are piling up in the hallway. No one dares to touch them”
Bytaketonews
Jun 7, 2026