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Article: 2 Ebola Cases Feared in Zaire Capital
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- The Washington Post
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- May 16, 1995
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Two suspected cases of infection with the incurable Ebola virus
were reported in Kinshasa today, raising fears that people are
spreading the disease beyond a provincial city where international
health officials are attempting to contain an outbreak.
Medical officials said the two potential cases, involving a
riverboat captain and a nun, do not necessarily indicate that the
disease is spreading out of control. But the officials were concerned
about the possible presence of Ebola in this capital of 5 million
residents and of poorly equipped hospitals.
World Health Organization (WHO) spokesman Thomson Prentice told
the Associated Press in Geneva that even confirmed cases of Ebola in
the Zairian ...