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WHO says Ebola outbreak has spread to DR Congo city

Health workers don protective equipment at Bikoro Hospital in northwest DR Congo -- the epicentre of the latest Ebola outbreak

The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has spread to a city, the World Health Organization said Thursday, fuelling concern the deadly virus may prove tougher to contain.

The fresh outbreak, publicly declared on May 8 with 23 deaths so far, had previously been confined to a very remote, rural area in Equateur Province in the northwest of the country.

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