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Tom Miles

MYSTERIOUS: Ebola outbreak in congo largely contained says who | Mind Blowing Facts

FILE PHOTO: A World Health Organization (WHO) worker administers a vaccination during the launch of a campaign aimed at beating an outbreak of Ebola in the port city of Mbandaka, Democratic Republic of Congo May 21, 2018. REUTERS/Kenny Katombe/File Photo

GENEVA (Reuters) - Democratic Republic of Congo's Ebola outbreak has been "largely contained" and no new cases of the disease have been confirmed since the last known sufferer died on June 9, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday.

The U.N. health body said it viewed the situation with "cautious optimism", despite the difficulty of tracking down people who may have been exposed to the deadly virus in remote forests close to the Congo River.

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