DR Congo says number of confirmed Ebola cases surpasses 3,000

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The number of confirmed Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of Congo has risen to 3,075, with 1,354 deaths, according to recent government data.

The World Health Organization (WHO) declared last May that the outbreak of the virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda constituted an emergency and posed a risk to other countries, and assessed the risk of its regional spread as high.

 

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