DR Congo confirms first Ebola cases

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DR Congo confirms first Ebola cases

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/un-vows-central-role-fighting-exceptional-ebola-epidemic-190628985.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/vGB8Z2gwa5vzIuPj22v4yw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/Part-PAR-Par7956558-1-1-0.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) staff work in protective gear on August 21, 2014 at the MSF ELWA hospital in Monrovia, where patients suffering from Ebola are being treated" align="left" title="Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) staff work in protective gear on August 21, 2014 at the MSF ELWA hospital in Monrovia, where patients suffering from Ebola are being treated" border="0" /></a>The Democratic Republic of Congo confirmed its two first cases of Ebola this year, but claimed they were unrelated to the epidemic raging in four countries of West Africa. The UN's World Health Organization (WHO) meanwhile announced that one of its health experts, an epidemiologist, had been infected while working in Sierra Leone. Also on Sunday, Britain's first Ebola patient, a male nurse who contracted the disease in Sierra Leone, was admitted to a London hospital. In Kinshasa, Congolese Health Minister Felix Kabange Numbi said that two of eight samples taken from victims of a mystery fever had tested positive for Ebola.</p><br clear="all"/>

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