DRC: Health officials scramble to respond to latest ebola outbreak

Health officials met in Kinshasa Friday to discuss a response to a deadly Ebola outbreak in eastern DR Congo.

The outbreak was confirmed in northeastern Ituri province, which borders Uganda and South Sudan, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.

Results from 13 of 20 samples tested in the capital, Kinshasa, indicated that “four deaths have been reported among laboratory-confirmed cases”, it said.

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