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Ebola Outbreak Accelerates in Congo | Raleigh News
An American aid worker in Congo has tested positive for Ebola, sparking a frantic CDC response to contain the outbreak. With over 1,800 confirmed cases and more than 600 deaths in Congo—and cases now appearing in Uganda—the Bundibugyo strain, which lacks approved vaccines or treatments, is spreading at record speed. Compounding the crisis: funding shortages, attacks on health facilities, and regional conflict. This isn’t the first U.S. case—earlier, an American doctor was evacuated to Germany, and a plan to send others to Kenya was blocked by court order. But hope arrives as clinical trials…
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