DR Congo confirms first two cases of Ebola<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/dr-congo-confirms-first-cases-ebola-173046114.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/auJb1EUsNBIpoaPyYdCdLQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/Part-PAR-Par7955518-1-1-0.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="Staff members are seen at the French NGO Doctors Without Borders Elwa hospital in Monrovia, where patients suffering from Ebola are treated, August 21, 2014" align="left" title="Staff members are seen at the French NGO Doctors Without Borders Elwa hospital in Monrovia, where patients suffering from Ebola are treated, August 21, 2014" border="0" /></a>The Democratic Republic of Congo on Sunday confirmed its first two cases this year of Ebola but claimed they were unrelated to the epidemic ravaging West Africa. The Ebola virus is confirmed in DRC," Health Minister Felix Kabange Numbi told AFP, referring to tests undertaken on people after an unidentified fever killed 13 in the northwest Equateur province this month. "After analysing eight samples taken in the field, the National Institute of Biomedical Research has just confirmed that two of those samples test positive for Ebola," Kabanga said later on public television. He said the confirmation marked the seventh outbreak of Ebola in DR Congo, where the virus was first identified in 1976 near the Ebola River.</p><br clear="all"/>
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