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The WHO declared an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda a public health emergency, with hundreds of cases and an American worker affected. A hantavirus cluster linked to a Dutch cruise ship in the South Atlantic has killed three and exposed hundreds.

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