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The Democratic Republic of Congo has sent its health minister and a team of experts to the remote northern Equateur province after up to ten people died from a disease with Ebola-like symptoms, a local official and a professor said today (August 20).
It remains unclear if the victims had died of Ebola, but a witness said they had all suffered fever, diarrhea and bleeding from the ears and nostrils – all symptoms of the deadly virus.
The report came as Liberia’s president – Ellen Johnson Sirleaf – ordered the entire West Point slum in the country’s capital – Monrovia – along with its 50,000 residents into quarantine in a desperate bid to halt the spread of Ebola there.
