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Bundibugyo Ebola reaches Nigeria and ravages DR Congo

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Bundibugyo Ebola reaches Nigeria and ravages DR Congo

Nigeria is the fourth African country affected this year by the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola, while the outbreak has been hitting the Democratic Republic of the Congo since May. Congolese Public Health Minister Samuel Roger Kamba and France 24’s correspondent in Kinshasa describe an outbreak that has become the deadliest ever recorded in the country, according to France 24.

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