DRC: Alert over Ebola virus
16.01.2009
At least 13 people have been killed in a southern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) by what aid groups say is an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus. Francois Dumont, the spokesman for Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders), said tests had so far confirmed the virus in four people and all of those had survived.