DR Congo races to prevent new Ebola outbreak

KINSHASA - Health authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo are racing to contain a possible Ebola outbreak, after a woman died from the virus near the eastern city of Butembo, The Guardian reports.

The woman showed symptoms on 1 February in the town of Biena, North Kivu. She died in hospital in Butembo two days later.

She was married to a man who had contracted the virus in a previous outbreak.

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