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    <text>The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention reports that the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has caused 202 deaths from 875 confirmed cases. Health officials cite difficulties in contact tracing, while the Red Cross warns that the outbreak has not yet peaked. </text>
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      <text>The European Union and G7 nations at the summit in Évian-les-Bains pledge funding for the Democratic Republic of the Congo amidst the Ebola epidemic in the country, including in Ituri Province. </text>
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    <text>The European Union and G7 nations at the summit in Évian-les-Bains, France, pledge funding for the Democratic Republic of the Congo amidst the Ebola epidemic in the country, including in Ituri Province. </text>
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    <text>The Democratic Republic of the Congo's Ebola outbreak spreads to the Tchomia health zone in Ituri Province, with the health ministry reporting 37 new confirmed cases and 12 deaths. The outbreak has recorded 635 confirmed cases and 127 deaths across three provinces. </text>
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      <text>The American physician who contracted Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is discharged from the hospital in Charité, Germany. </text>
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      <text>The American physician who contracted Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is discharged from the hospital in Charité, Germany. </text>
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    <text>The American physician who contracted Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is discharged from the Charité hospital in Berlin, Germany. </text>
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    <text>The DRC's public health ministry reports that 344 cases of the Ebola virus have been confirmed across three provinces. </text>
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    <text>The Bahamas announces enhanced health screening and possible quarantine measures for travelers who recently visited the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), South Sudan, and Uganda following the Ebola epidemic in central Africa. </text>
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    <text>The International Red Cross announces that three of its local volunteers have died from Ebola while working in the Djugu Territory, Ituri Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), in March. </text>
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      <text>The World Health Organization raises its assessment of the risk from the outbreak within the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) from &quot;high&quot; to &quot;very high&quot; due to its rapid spread. </text>
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    <text>The World Health Organization raises its assessment of the risk from the Ebola outbreak within the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) from &quot;high&quot; to &quot;very high&quot; due to its rapid spread, while keeping it &quot;low&quot; at the global level. Director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says that the outbreak in Uganda is stable. </text>
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      <text>The death toll in the Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo rises to 131. </text>
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    <text>The death toll in the Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo rises to 131. </text>
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    <text>The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announces that it is suspending entry into the United States for 30 days to travelers without a U.S. passport that have been to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Sudan, or Uganda amidst the ongoing Ebola outbreak in these countries. </text>
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  <text>The total amount of cases of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo reaches past 1,000. </text>
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