Two more people have died of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, according to reports on Wednesday, May 23, as officials said that three Ebola patients have escaped quarantine.
Reuters reported that three patients slipped out of an isolation ward in the city of Mbandaka. The cases represent a setback to costly efforts to contain the virus, including the use of an experimental vaccine, and show efforts to stem its spread can be hampered by age-old customs or skepticism about the threat it poses.
