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DRC authorities urge calm amid new Ebola outbreak
Authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo are urging the public not to panic following the country's latest Ebola outbreak. Surveillance, contact tracing, testing, and response efforts are underway.
A new Ebola outbreak has emerged in northeastern DRC amid an already severe humanitarian crisis in the region.
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Ebola sceptics
A Congolese police officer stands guard at a burning Ebola treatment center in Rwampara, outside Bunia, Ituri province, Democratic Republic of Congo, May 21. Clashes erupted over the burial of an Ebola victim, with protesters forcing their way into a hospital and setting fire to medical tents, after the family of the victim disputed Ebola as the cause of death and demanded custody of the body, witnesses said. REUTERS/Gradel Muyisa Mumbere