The Ebola outbreak that has killed around 250 in central Africa is spreading faster than medical aid can be delivered – and experts fear it has reached Brazil.
A rare type of the fatal disease is ravaging the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), with more than 1,000 cases reported so far.
The charity Doctors Without Borders warned: ‘Never before has an Ebola outbreak recorded so many cases so soon after its declaration.’
Dr Alan Gonzalez, its deputy director of operations, said: ‘Nobody knows the true scale and severity of this outbreak.’ He added that his teams were ‘witnessing a response that has
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