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    Ebola response is working, WHO director-general says, amid criticism and violence

    Addressing difficulties in the response to the latest Ebola outbreak, the WHO's @DrTedros told reporters: "Leaving the area is not an option. Evacuation is not an option.”
    by Helen Branswell Mar 14, 2019 2 minutes
    Health workers are seen through a bullet hole left in the window of an Ebola treatment center that was attacked in Butembo.

    The director-general of the World Health Organization said Thursday that health officials are making progress against the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and that the footprint of the outbreak zone is actually contracting.

    The cautiously hopeful remarks from Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who visited the outbreak zone last week, came just hours after the

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