Chaotic Congo basks in rare success after quashing Ebola


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  • Thursday, 26 Jul 2018

FILE PHOTO: A child attends a class during a vaccination campaign against the outbreak of Ebola in Mbandaka, Democratic Republic of Congo, May 23, 2018. REUTERS/Kenny Katombe/File Photo

KINSHASA (Reuters) - Congo's health minister said on Wednesday that when its Ebola outbreak was first announced less than three months ago, he never dreamed it would be possible to contain it so swiftly.

"On the 8th of May 2018, when I declared that Democratic Republic of Congo was facing a new epidemic of Ebola, I didn't think I'd be able to say these words so soon," Health Minister Oly Ilunga Kalenga told a news conference.

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