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Newshour: DRC Ebola Outbreak Spreads to City

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17/05/2018 GMT

BBC World Service - Newshour, DRC Ebola Outbreak Spreads to City

The current outbreak of Ebola in the northwest corner of the DRC has claimed at least 23 lives - but until now it had been confined to a remote rural area. Today the World Health Organisation confirmed a new case in a large port city, Mbandaka, which has set alarm bells ringing because of the possibility of further contagion. Could a new, but unlicensed, Ebola vaccine make a difference?  

Also on the programme: Newshour's James Menendez is in Venezuela, ahead of the presidential election there on Sunday.

Picture: A health worker walks at an Ebola quarantine unit on June 13, 2017 during a previous Ebola outbreak in the DRC. Credit: Getty Images.

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