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🚨 Ebola: Outbreak cases are “tip of iceberg,” says Africa CDC official at centre of epidemic

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β€œBetter to die from Ebola than the attacker who would come and cut my head off.” That was what Yap Boum II’s driver told him as he arrived this week in Beni, North Kivu, a province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).Boum is head of the emergency preparedness and response division for the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC). He is also regional incident manager for the Ebola response. In early June he visited an…

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