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JOHANNESBURG – The World Health Organization has announced a meeting on Wednesday to determine whether the latest Ebola epidemic in the Congo was a public health emergency of international concern.
Humanitarian organizations have expressed concern that the number of new cases has more than doubled this month and that community resistance to the Ebola response has become violent in some cases.
This is the tenth Ebola epidemic in Congo, but it is the first time that the deadly virus has appeared in the far north-east, an area of active rebel attacks that health workers have compared to a war zone.
The WHO recently stated that the risk of regional spread was "very high", with confirmed cases being reported near the heavily trafficked border with Uganda.
The Congo Ministry of Health has announced that there are currently 179 confirmed cases, including 104 deaths.
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