may 31, 2020 - Ebola outbreak in Congo

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Five people have died in Mbandaka, a western city more than 750 miles away from another Ebola outbreak in the country.

A fresh outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus has flared up in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a country that was already contending with the world’s largest measles epidemic, as well as the coronavirus.

Congo’s health ministry said that the new Ebola outbreak has killed four people, and infected at least two more, in Mbandaka, a city of 1.2 million people on the country’s western side. A fifth person died on Monday, according to UNICEF, the United Nations agency for children. (NY Times)

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