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WHO official warns unlikely Ebola outbreak over in two months

Lab holding Ebola in DRC's Goma at risk amid fighting: Red Cross
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A World Health Organization official warned Tuesday that the duration of a deadly Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo could be lengthy.

“I don’t think that in two months we will be done with this outbreak,” Anne Ancia, WHO’s DRC representative, told reporters in Geneva, speaking from Bunia in DRC’s Ituri region, pointing to a recent Ebola outbreak that “took two years”.

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