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'Invisible' Ebola transmission in the DRC may make it a bigger threat

By Debora Mackenzie

3 September 2018

Church service in the Democratic Republic of Congo

People at gathering places in the Democratic Republic of the Congo risk spreading Ebola

JOHN WESSELS/AFP/Getty Images

The world’s epidemic watchers are holding their breath this week. The latest Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo seems to be subsiding, after . But Tedros Ghebreyesus, head of the World Health Organization, has warned that the coming days will be critical.

That is partly because the outbreak is in North Kivu province in the war-torn northeast of the DRC, where fighting by more than 50 armed groups puts…

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