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LONDON, May 3 (UPI) _ The British Broadcasting
Corp. reports a new epidemic of the deadly Ebola virus has appeared in the Democratic
Republic of Congo.
The BBC quotes a spokesman for a South African-based
medical information service as saying, "There is a very real danger of it spreading
to Sudan."
The BBC cited World Health Organisation
figures that say 50 people have died in the latest outbreak of the disease.
Congolese Health Minister Mashako Mamba
announced on Friday that the DRC was confronted by an epidemic.
An epidemic in 1995 caused 245 deaths.
The highly infectious virus kills between
50 percent and 90 percent of people who become infected, according to the WHO. There
is no known virus for the disease.
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