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Saudi Arabia suspends visas to people from Congo over Ebola

By SALEH MWANAMILONGO - Associated Press

In this Saturday, July 13, 2019 photo, health workers dressed in protective gear check on Ivette Adania, 24, a mother of four whose husband died of Ebola, at a treatment center in Beni, Congo. The World Health Organization has declared the Ebola outbreak an international emergency. More than 1,700 people in eastern Congo have died as the virus has spread in areas too dangerous for health teams to access. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

Ebola vaccine hampered by deep distrust in eastern Congo

By KRISTA LARSON - Associated Press

In this Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2019, file photo, health workers give a training presentation about how to detect and prevent the spread of Ebola, in an army barracks outside South Sudan's town of Yei. (AP Photo/ Sam Medrick)

War-weakened South Sudan tries to prepare for Ebola

By Sam Mednick - Associated Press

In this Tuesday, July 16, 2019 photo, health workers dressed in protective gear begin their shift at an Ebola treatment center in Beni, Congo DRC. The World Health Organization has declared the Ebola outbreak an international emergency after spreading to eastern Congo's biggest city, Goma, this week. More than 1,600 people in eastern Congo have died as the virus has spread in areas too dangerous for health teams to access. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

Congo soldiers, police to enforce Ebola emergency measures

By KRISTA LARSON and AL-HADJI KUDRA MALIRO - Associated Press

In this photograph taken Sunday July 14, 2019, an Ebola victim is put to rest at the Muslim cemetery in Beni, Congo DRC. The head of the World Health Organization is convening a meeting of experts Wednesday July 17, 2019 to decide whether the Ebola outbreak should be declared an international emergency after spreading to eastern Congo's biggest city, Goma, this week. More than 1,600 people in eastern Congo have died as the virus has spread in areas too dangerous for health teams to access. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

Ebola outbreak in Congo declared a global health emergency

By MARIA CHENG and JAMEY KEATEN - Associated Press

Health officials in Congo have been working since August to reel in a stubborn outbreak that has claimed over 1,675 victims. (Associated Press/File)

WHO says Ebola outbreak in DRC is a global emergency

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

In this photograph taken Saturday July 13, 2019, an health worker wearing protective suits enters an isolation pod to treat a patient at a treatment center in Beni, Congo DRC. The head of the World Health Organization is convening a meeting of experts Wednesday July 17, 2019 to decide whether the Ebola outbreak should be declared an international emergency after spreading to eastern Congo's biggest city, Goma, this week. More than 1,600 people in eastern Congo have died as the virus has spread in areas too dangerous for health teams to access.(AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

A timeline of Congo’s latest deadly Ebola virus outbreak

Associated Press

In this photograph taken Saturday July 13, 2019, health workers wearing protective suits take their shift at a treatment center in Beni, Congo DRC. The head of the World Health Organization is convening a meeting of experts Wednesday July 17, 2019 to decide whether the Ebola outbreak should be declared an international emergency after spreading to eastern Congo's biggest city, Goma, this week. More than 1,600 people in eastern Congo have died as the virus has spread in areas too dangerous for health teams to access.(AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

AP Explains: Why Ebola is now an international emergency

By CARA ANNA - Associated Press

UN health agency calls emergency meeting on Ebola outbreak

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In this photograph taken Saturday 13 July 2019, health workers wearing protective suits tend to to an Ebola victim kept in an isolation cube in Beni, Congo DRC. The Congolese health ministry is confirming the country's first Ebola case in the provincial capital of 2 million, Goma, some 360 kms ( 225 miles) south of Beni. More than 1,600 people in eastern Congo have died as the virus has spread in areas too dangerous for health teams to access. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

Congo tracing contacts of first Ebola case in eastern city

By KRISTA LARSON - Associated Press

While American parents debate the risks of the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine, a report by two global health organizations said the majority of unvaccinated children live in the world's poorest countries and are disproportionately in "fragile or conflict-affected states" such as Syria, Afghanistan and Congo. (Associated Press/File)

Measles vaccine stagnation alarms global health groups

By Shen Wu Tan - The Washington Times

Congo confirms 1st Ebola case in city of Goma

By KRISTA LARSON - Associated Press

UN food aid agency steps up relief for Congo refugees

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Ebola case reported not far from South Sudan border

By SAM MEDNICK and KRISTA LARSON - Associated Press

People coming from Congo wash their hands with chlorinated water to prevent the spread of infection, at the Mpondwe border crossing with Congo, in western Uganda Friday, June 14, 2019. In Uganda, health workers had long prepared in case the Ebola virus got past the screening conducted at border posts with Congo and earlier this week it did, when a family exposed to Ebola while visiting Congo returned home on an unguarded footpath. (AP Photo/Ronald Kabuubi)

UN says thousands flee Congo violence, seek asylum in Uganda

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA - Associated Press

About 160 dead after days of Congo intercommunal violence

By SALEH MWANAMILONGO - Associated Press

People coming from Congo have their temperature measured to screen for symptoms of Ebola, at the Mpondwe border crossing with Congo, in western Uganda Friday, June 14, 2019. In Uganda, health workers had long prepared in case the Ebola virus got past the screening conducted at border posts with Congo and earlier this week it did, when a family exposed to Ebola while visiting Congo returned home on an unguarded footpath. (AP Photo/Ronald Kabuubi)

Porous border could hinder efforts to stem spread of Ebola

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA - Associated Press

People coming from Congo have their temperature measured to screen for symptoms of Ebola, at the Mpondwe border crossing with Congo, in western Uganda Friday, June 14, 2019. In Uganda, health workers had long prepared in case the Ebola virus got past the screening conducted at border posts with Congo and earlier this week it did, when a family exposed to Ebola while visiting Congo returned home on an unguarded footpath. (AP Photo/Ronald Kabuubi)

Kenya patient free of Ebola, as Congo, Uganda fight outbreak

By TOM ODULA - Associated Press

In this June 13, 2019 photo, a migrant woman sleeps on a cot inside the Portland Exposition Building in Portland, Maine. Maine's largest city has repurposed the basketball arena as an emergency shelter in anticipation of hundreds of asylum seekers who are headed to the state from the U.S. southern border. Most are arriving from Congo and Angola. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

Record number of African migrants coming to Mexican border

By ANDREW SELSKY and PATRICK WHITTLE - Associated Press

In this photo provided by the International Rescue Committee, Congolese refugees wash their hands before being screened for Ebola symptoms at the IRC triage facility in the Kyaka II refugee settlement in Kyegegwa District in western Uganda, Thursday, June 13, 2019. The Congolese pastor who is thought to have caused the Ebola outbreak's spread into Uganda was unknown to health officials before he died of the disease, the World Health Organization's emergencies chief said Thursday, underlining the problems in tracking the virus. (Kellie Ryan/International Rescue Committee via AP)

The Latest: UN says Ebola not yet a global emergency

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