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Eight more Ebola cases confirmed in Congo: WHO

GENEVA -- Eight more cases of Ebola have been identified in Congo, raising to 17 the number of people confirmed to have contracted the deadly illness, the World Health Organization said Tuesday. The cases were confirmed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, WHO spokeswoman Fadela Chaib told reporters in Geneva.

The outbreak in Congo is the first major resurgence of Ebola in years. About 400 people have fallen ill in the affected region of Kasai Occidental over the past five months, and at least 170 people have died — though only six of those killed are confirmed to have had Ebola, Chaib said.

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