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Ebola resurfaces killing 3 people in DRC

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Three people in the Democratic Republic of Congo who died of a hemorrhagic fever have tested positive for the Ebola virus, signaling the start of a new outbreak, the Health Ministry and the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.

The cases were confirmed from tests on nine people who came down with a hemorrhagic fever in Bas-Uele province in the north of the country on or after April 22, a ministry statement said. Three people have died of fever.

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