RobertB
September 10th, 2007, 08:41 PM
Congo officials confirm Ebola outbreak
KINSHASA, Congo - Lab results have confirmed a deadly illness outbreak in southeastern Congo as Ebola fever, officials said Monday.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta and another lab in Gabon confirmed the disease as a hemorrhagic fever, and specifically as Ebola, Health Minister Makwenge Kaput said on national television.
More than 160 people have died of the illness in the affected region since late August and nearly 400 have been infected, said Jean-Constatin Kanow, the chief medical inspector for the province.
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KINSHASA, Congo - Lab results have confirmed a deadly illness outbreak in southeastern Congo as Ebola fever, officials said Monday.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta and another lab in Gabon confirmed the disease as a hemorrhagic fever, and specifically as Ebola, Health Minister Makwenge Kaput said on national television.
More than 160 people have died of the illness in the affected region since late August and nearly 400 have been infected, said Jean-Constatin Kanow, the chief medical inspector for the province.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070910...eVGi34B2wGs0NUE