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Ebola outbreak spreads to crowded displacement camp in Congo

  • First Ebola-related deaths confirmed in Kpangba displacement camp in eastern Congo, which houses about 30,000 people.
  • Aid workers warn overcrowded, unsanitary camps and community mistrust (secret burials, hostility to responders) could make the virus spread rapidly.
  • Outbreak has spread across three Congolese provinces and into Uganda (hundreds of cases); it’s the rare Bundibugyo strain, with no approved vaccine or treatment.
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