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DR Congo confirms first cases of Ebola

By AFP
Congo Staff members are seen at the French NGO Doctors Without Borders Elwa hospital in Monrovia, where patients suffering from Ebola are treated, August 21, 2014.  By Zoom Dosso AFPFile
AUG 24, 2014 LISTEN
Staff members are seen at the French NGO Doctors Without Borders Elwa hospital in Monrovia, where patients suffering from Ebola are treated, August 21, 2014. By Zoom Dosso (AFP/File)

Kinshasa (AFP) - The Democratic Republic of Congo on Sunday confirmed its first cases of Ebola in the epidemic that has affected four other African nations.

"The results are positive. The Ebola virus is confirmed in DRC," Health Minister Felix Kabange Numbi told AFP, referring to testing that had been undertaken on people infected with a previously unidentified fever that has killed 13 since mid-August in the northwest of the country.

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