DR Congo Ebola outbreak tops 400 deaths as virus reaches major city

According to France 24, an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has killed more than four hundred people and continues to spread. Health authorities have confirmed the virus has reached Kisangani, a major city hundreds of kilometers away from the epidemic's epicenter in the northeast. The expansion into a densely populated urban center raises urgent concerns about rapid transmission and the strain on local health systems.

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