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Congo recorded 353 confirmed Ebola cases in the past week, a 25% increase in caseload, per Africa CDC.
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
newkerala.com — Ebola Death Toll Exceeds 600 in Congo and Uganda
"Congo recorded some 353 confirmed cases during the past week, which marked a 25 per cent increase in the country's caseload"
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Extracted by pipeline v0.5 (claude-opus-4-8) from newkerala.com · approved by christopher@vucanews.com JUL 10.
Extracted JUL 10; approved JUL 10 at 0.60.
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