Kuppalli is an infectious diseases physician in Dallas. She has extensive experience with Covid-19, mpox, and Ebola, including working for the World Health Organization. The reports emerging this week of a major Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of ...

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Africa's top public health agency said on Friday that ​there was a confirmed Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo's Ituri province, with 65 deaths out of 246 suspected ​cases so far, and Uganda's health ministry said a Congolese ⁠man ⁠had died in Kampala ⁠of ​Ebola Bundibugyo.

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