Africa Ebola outbreak passes 10,000 cases, mostly in DR Congo
Africa's latest outbreak of Ebola has passed 10,000 confirmed cases, the vast majority of them in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Congolese health authorities said on Tuesday, with almost 5,000 fatalities.
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[Claude] All three other reports describe the same announcement by Congolese health authorities that the Ebola outbreak passed 10,000 cases, with no conflicting facts.
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