Beni — When Jémima Masika, 26, lost her parents to the deadly Ebola virus in August last year, she thought the disease was a myth. Then her worst nightmare came true: she contracted the disease while taking care of her sick aunt in hospital.
"I did not believe in the existence of Ebola," she says. "Like many, I took the disease for a [story] made up by politicians."
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