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In this Saturday, July 13, 2019 file photo, a child is vaccinated against Ebola in Beni, Congo. The World Health Organization says Monday, Sept. 23, 2019 Congo will start using a second experimental Ebola vaccine, as efforts to stop the spiraling outbreak are stalled and Doctors Without Borders criticizes vaccination efforts to date. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, file)

2nd Ebola vaccine to be used in Congo, as UN efforts slammed

By MARIA CHENG - Associated Press

US urges transparency in Ebola-like death in Tanzania

By Associated Press - Associated Press

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres visits an Ebola center in Beni, eastern Congo Sunday, Sept. 1, 2019. Guterres is starting a three-day visit to Congo to see the work of UN peacekeepers, work on disarmament and reintegration of ex-combatants, and efforts to stop the spread of the Ebola virus. (AP Photo/Al-hadji Kudra Maliro)

Congo police detain ex-health minister in Ebola funds probe

By SALEH MWANAMILONGO - Associated Press

In this photo of Wednesday, Sept.11, 2019, Congolese student and Ebola survivor Claude Mabowa, left, with his friends in Beni Congo. Mabowa managed to pass his college entrance exam while in isolation for treatment. Mabowa, who took them in July behind glass, said this week that this brings him hope he can still realize his dreams. (AP Photo/Al-hadji Kudra Maliro)

Congo Ebola survivor passes college exam taken in isolation

By AL-HADJI KUDRA MALIRO - Associated Press

FILE - In this Monday, Jan. 19, 2015 file photo, a healthcare worker, right, takes the temperatures of school children for signs of the Ebola virus before they enter their school in the city of Conakry, Guinea. People who survive Ebola might have a higher chance of dying in the first year after being released from the hospital, in a new study published Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2019 that suggests more should be done to monitor the health of survivors amid the outbreak in Congo. Doctors gathered information for more than 1,000 people hospitalized for Ebola in Guinea after the West Africa epidemic. They found Ebola survivors had up to a five times higher chance of dying in the first year after their release when compared to the general public. (AP Photo/Youssouf Bah, file)

Ebola survivors at higher risk of dying, even after recovery

By MARIA CHENG - Associated Press

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres visits an Ebola center in Beni, eastern Congo Sunday, Sept. 1, 2019. Guterres is starting a three-day visit to Congo to see the work of UN peacekeepers, work on disarmament and reintegration of ex-combatants, and efforts to stop the spread of the Ebola virus. (AP Photo/Al-hadji Kudra Maliro)

UN chief visits Congo Ebola region, pledging support

By AL-HADJI KUDRA MALIRO - Associated Press

FILE - In this Friday, June 14, 2019 file photo, people coming from Congo have their temperature measured to screen for symptoms of Ebola, at the Mpondwe border crossing with Congo, in western Uganda. Ugandan health authorities on Thursday, Aug. 29, 2019 said a 9-year-old Congolese child has tested positive for Ebola in Uganda, after being identified and screened at the official Mpondwe border crossing, and was then taken to an isolation unit in the Ugandan border town of Bwera in Kasese district. (AP Photo/Ronald Kabuubi, File)

Uganda: 9-year-old girl from Congo dies of Ebola

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA and AL-HADJI KUDRA MALIRO - Associated Press

FILE - In this Friday, June 14, 2019 file photo, people coming from Congo wash their hands with chlorinated water to prevent the spread of Ebola infection, at the Mpondwe border crossing with Congo. Ugandan health authorities on Thursday, Aug. 29, 2019 said a 9-year-old Congolese child has tested positive for Ebola in Uganda, after being identified and screened at the official Mpondwe border crossing, and was then taken to an isolation unit in the Ugandan border town of Bwera in Kasese district. (AP Photo/Ronald Kabuubi, File)

Uganda says a traveling Congolese girl has Ebola

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA - Associated Press

In this photo taken Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2019 people hold a placard demonstration in Cape Town, South Africa, in protest against fires burning in Brazil's Amazon rainforest. Satellite images show a far greater number of fires burning on the African continent but experts say the situation in Africa is different and not yet a growing problem attributing the abundance of fires across the savannah lands to agricultural technique by small farmers cultivating fields. (AP Photo)

Africa is the ‘fire continent’ but blazes differ from Amazon

By CARLEY PETESCH - Associated Press

Congo to use second vaccine to fight Ebola

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FILE - In this July 13, 2019 file photo, health workers wearing protective gear check on a patient isolated in a plastic cube at an Ebola treatment center in Beni, Congo. Congo's year-long Ebola outbreak has spread to a new province, with two cases, including one death, confirmed in South Kivu, according to the government health ministry. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)

Ebola outbreak spreads to 3rd province in eastern Congo

By SALEH MWANAMILONGO and AL-HADJI KUDRA MALIRO - Associated Press

Thierry Malasa pauses while describing the harrowing journey that led his family from the Congo to Maine, as the family prepared to move out of the Portland Expo, Thursday, Aug. 15, 2019, in Portland, Maine. The state's largest city is racing to find homes for dozens of African asylum seekers as a temporary shelter closes on Thursday. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

Maine finds homes for several hundred African asylum seekers

By DAVID SHARP - Associated Press

2 Ebola patients in Congo “cured” with drugs, say doctors

By SALEH MWANAMILONGO - Associated Press

Rwanda, Congo restrict unnecessary border travel amid Ebola

By IGNATIUS SSUUNA - Associated Press

Uganda begins largest trial of experimental Ebola vaccine

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA - Associated Press

FILE-In this Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2015 file photo, a warning sign is posted to the door of a medevac biocontainment unit aboard a military transport plane at Dobbins Air Force Reserve Base during a media tour, in Marietta, Ga. Some of the first Ebola virus patients to be successfully treated in the United States are reuniting five years later with the medical team that treated them at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

Former Ebola patient calls attention to current outbreak

By RON HARRIS - Associated Press

The Latest: Wife of Ebola victim in Goma has the virus

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People wash their hands at the Congo side of the Poids Lourd checkpoint at the border between Congo and Rwanda, Thursday, Aug. 1, 2019. Congo's presidency says the border is open again with Rwanda hours after its eastern neighbor closed it over the deadly Ebola outbreak. The closure occurred Thursday morning as the first case of direct transmission of the Ebola virus was confirmed in Goma, the Congo city of more than 2 million people on the Rwandan border.(AP Photo)

A timeline of Congo’s latest deadly Ebola virus outbreak

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In this Sunday, July 14, 2019, file photo, burial workers put on protective gear before carrying the remains of Mussa Kathembo, an Islamic scholar who had prayed over those who were sick, and his wife, Asiya, to their final resting place in Beni, Congo. Both died of Ebola. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

1-year-old daughter of Congo man who died of Ebola has virus

By Saleh Mwanamilongo and Ignatius Ssuuna - Associated Press

In this Wednesday, July 17, 2019 photo, 2-month-old Lahya Kathembo is carried by a nurse waiting for test results at an Ebola treatment center in Beni, Congo. Lahya became an orphan in a day. Her mother succumbed to Ebola on a Saturday morning. By sunset her father was dead. Her tests came back negative for Ebola. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

Too many in Congo’s Ebola outbreak are dying at home

By KRISTA LARSON - Associated Press