The World Health Organization has declared the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo a global public health emergency, as cases continue to rise in the country’s eastern Ituri province
The World Health Organization has declared the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo a global public health emergency, as cases continue to rise in the country’s eastern Ituri provinceHealth authorities have reported hundreds of suspected infections and dozens of deaths linked to the rare Bundibugyo strain of Ebola, marking only the third known outbreak of its kind in history.
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