Ebola outbreak in DR Congo hits 100 cases – Riverine Herald

The Ebola outbreak in western Democratic Republic of Congo has infected 100 people, killing 43 of them, the World Health Organisation says.The latest outbreak of the virus was declared on June 1 in Mbandaka, a city of 1 million people on the River Congo, just before the country declared the end of a previous outbreak in the east that had dragged on for two years.It has spread to remote villages in Equateur province spanning more than 300km of dense forest with few roads, the WHO said in a statem…

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