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Congo's Ebola epidemic inflicts heavy toll on children

Desy Shabani, a psycho-social assistant, talks to suspected Ebola patients at an Ebola treatment centre in Butembo, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, March 27, 2019. [Reuters]

Eight-year-old Kennedy Muhindo was running a high fever and racked by stomach pain and diarrhea.

Health workers told him he had Ebola but his first thought was for his sister who had been battling the virus.

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