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Ebola Reaches a Seventh DRC Province

TL;DR

Al Jazeera files a confirmed Ebola case in Sud-Ubangi, a seventh DRC province; one case is not a western epicenter.

MSM Perspective

Al Jazeera filed Sud-Ubangi. Local transmission there had not been confirmed in Friday copy.

X Perspective

Feeds treat a seventh province as the outbreak already in Kinshasa.

Authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo confirmed an Ebola case in Sud-Ubangi, a seventh province. [1] Al Jazeera filed a 23-year-old man who died in Gwaka after traveling from the east. [1] Laboratory copy named Bundibugyo ebolavirus. Contacts were identified. Local transmission in the new province had not been confirmed in Friday's file. Print a seventh province. Do not print a western epicenter.

U.S. News filed the case as far from the eastern centre. [2] A traveled case is not a new outbreak map by itself. Kinshasa is not Sud-Ubangi. Print Sud-Ubangi. Leave a later national count to the edition that owns a later count.

Friday recap that treats one death as the capital falling is a feed, not Al Jazeera. Print the seventh. Do not invent a cleared outbreak.

A seventh province means the outbreak moves faster than containment; traveled cases redraw maps. Kinshasa watches the west. Friday's death is a datapoint, not a trend — yet.

Yet-not-a-trend is Friday's honest limit; Friday's death is a datapoint. Kinshasa watches west. Containment hasn't caught the map.

Traveled cases redraw maps. Kinshasa watches the west. Containment has not caught the seventh province.

Gwaka recorded a 23-year-old who had come from the east, and Sud-Ubangi was named a seventh province. Bundibugyo ebolavirus is the laboratory identification. Contacts listed are not confirmed local chains. Miles from the eastern centre are not Kinshasa infected.
Sud-Ubangi was named a seventh province. Bundibugyo ebolavirus is the laboratory identification. Contacts listed are not confirmed local chains.

Sud-Ubangi was named a seventh province. Bundibugyo ebolavirus is the laboratory identification. Contacts listed are not confirmed local chains.

-- NORA WHITFIELD, Chicago

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