Ebola started 3 months earlier than official declaration

France 24 reports that genetic sequencing shows the fast-moving Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo actually started about three months before health officials declared the emergency this past May. Ebola is a severe viral hemorrhagic fever that has caused repeated, deadly outbreaks across Central Africa — meaning this one had already been spreading undetected for months before the world took formal notice.

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