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WHO reported 1,759 confirmed Ebola cases and 600 deaths in DRC since the outbreak was declared in mid-May.
WHY THIS MATTERS · This matters because an Ebola flare-up that jumps a porous DRC border into a city or refugee corridor can overwhelm fragile health systems fast, and the only real brakes are limited vaccine stockpiles and rapid-response teams that take days to deploy.
Part of the monitored dynamic Ebola Outbreak Tracking · VUCA INDEX 66/100
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INGESTED ARTICLETIER 2JUL 9
manilatimes.net — 600 dead in DRC Ebola outbreak – WHO | The Manila Times
"Updated numbers issued by the United Nations’ health agency showed there have been 1,759 confirmed cases in the DRC since the outbreak was declared in mid-May, including 600 confirmed deaths."
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Extracted by pipeline v0.5 (claude-opus-4-8) from manilatimes.net · approved by christopher@vucanews.com JUL 10.
Extracted JUL 10; approved JUL 10 at 0.70.
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- Five other passengers on the doctor's Air France flight were identified as possible contacts and placed in isolation.
- An Ebola case was recently confirmed in Kisangani, a major DRC city 600 km from the outbreak epicentre.
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