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Ebola moving faster than responders can contain it, warns WHO

Ebola is racing through the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo faster than health workers can respond, the World Health Organisation has warned, as suspected deaths passed 220.

“At the moment, the epidemic is outpacing us,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the head of the UN agency, said before he arrived in the Congo to oversee the response.

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