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Congo declares end of Ebola outbreak that killed 55

Kavota Mugisha Robert, a healthcare worker, who volunteered in the Ebola response, decontaminates his colleague after he entered the house of 85-year-old woman, suspected of dying of Ebola, in the eastern Congolese town of Beni in the Democratic Republic of Congo, October 8, 2019. [File, Reuters]

Democratic Republic of Congo’s health minister on Wednesday announced the end of an Ebola outbreak in the west of the country that infected 130 people and killed 55.

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