More than 1,500 people have died in a nearly 10-month-old outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the health ministry said Monday
Kinshasa - .Earlier this month, the virus claimed two lives in neighbouring Uganda among a family who had travelled to the DRC.
Ebola spreads among humans through close contact with the blood, body fluids, secretions or organs of an infected person, or objects contaminated by such fluids.
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