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British doctor with Ebola flown home to London for treatment as DR Congo outbreak passes 10,000 cases
A British doctor who tested positive for Ebola while working on the outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been evacuated to London and is being treated in the Royal Free Hospital's high-level isolation unit, with health officials saying the risk to the wider public remains low.
Ebola deaths pass 5,000 in DR Congo in the country’s deadliest outbreak on record
Health ministry data released on Saturday showed 5,026 people have died among 10,351 cases in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Ebola outbreak, making it the country’s deadliest ever and the second-deadliest in history, with health officials warning containment is still falling behind the spread.