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- Democratic Republic of Congo has declared a new Ebola epidemic in the western city of Mbandaka.
- This is the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s 11th outbreak of Ebola since the virus was first discovered in the country in 1976.
- The virus is transmitted to people from wild animals and spreads in the human population through human-to-human transmission.
- An experimental Ebola vaccine, called rVSV-ZEBOV proved highly protective against EVD in a major trial in Guinea in 2015.
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