Ebola virus disease – Democratic Republic of the Congo

Published on March 6, 2020

No new cases of Ebola virus disease have been reported since 17 February, and on 3 March, the only person confirmed to have EVD in the last 21 days (Figure 1) was discharged from an Ebola Treatment Centre after recovering and testing negative twice for the virus. WHO Disease Outbreak News

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Outbreak of gastroenteritis highlighting the diagnostic and epidemiological challenges of enteroinvasive Escherichia coli, County of Halland, Sweden, November 2017

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