DRC Ebola outbreak kills 43, says WHO
The outbreak has infected 100 people so far, in a region where equatorial forests are a natural reservoir for the Ebola virus
21 August 2020 - 18:24
Goma — The Ebola outbreak in western Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has infected 100 people as of Friday, killing 43 of them, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said.
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 DRC declared the end of a previous outbreak in the east that had dragged on for two years...
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