DR Congo: Ebola is killing people before they ever reach a doctor
ORIGINAL REPORTOPEN UN NEWS REPORT ↗More than 1,900 people have died in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Ebola outbreak and most of them never made it to a treatment centre. Between 60 and 70 per cent of deaths are happening in communities far from care, a gap that is now central to the World Health Organization's This is the original publication from United Nations.
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DR Congo: Ebola is killing people before they ever reach a doctor
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