Africa Ebola outbreak passes 10,000 cases, DR Congo health authorities
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SPECIAL REPORT | Uganda insists it has contained its Bundibugyo virus disease outbreak, but cases in Kenya and Nigeria, conflicting accounts of the patients’ movements and questions about the source of infection have put its public-health assurances under renewed scrutiny, reports Ronald Musoke.
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The coverage 22 sources
- Center-LeftAl JazeeraEbola cases in DR Congo surpass 10,000 in fastest-growing outbreak (opens the publisher’s site)
- Center-LeftDaily MaverickCongo’s Ebola cases surpass 10,000 as fears grow of wider African spread (opens the publisher’s site)
- CenterAsharq Al-AwsatCongo's Ebola Infections Surpass 10,000 (opens the publisher’s site)
- CenterAssociated PressCongo’s Ebola outbreak tops 10,000 cases as authorities race to slow the spread in African countries - AP News (opens the publisher’s site)
- CenterCTV NewsAttackers kill nurse, severely injure health worker responding to Ebola case in eastern Congo (opens the publisher’s site)
- CenterDeutsche WelleDR Congo reports over 10,000 Ebola cases as the outbreak spreads abroad, with no approved vaccine or specific treatment for the Bundibugyo virus (opens the publisher’s site)
- CenterFrance 24Africa's Ebola outbreak tops 10,000 cases, mainly in DR Congo (opens the publisher’s site)
- CenterMedical XpressCongo's Ebola outbreak tops 10,000 cases as authorities race to slow the spread in African countries (opens the publisher’s site)
- CenterSABC NewsKenya releases first Ebola contacts from quarantine (opens the publisher’s site)
- CenterSky NewsEbola cases in DRC surpass 10,000 as nurse treating patients is killed by machete-wielding mob (opens the publisher’s site)