Urban ebola confirmed

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May 16, 2018 - 11:00 PM

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Congo’s latest Ebola outbreak has spread to a city of more than 1 million people, a worrying shift as the deadly virus risks traveling more easily in densely populated areas.

Medical teams hurried to track down anyone thought to have had contact with infected people as this vast, impoverished nation — a veteran of eight previous Ebola outbreaks — for the first time is fighting the virus in an urban area.

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