International aid cuts complicate Congo's Ebola epidemic

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The Ebola  epidemic  continues to grow in the provinces of Ituri and North Kivu in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) , with more than 900 suspected cases and 220 deaths so far. The World Health Organization  (WHO) fears that the virus will keep continue to spread in DRC. "We are facing an extremely serious and difficult outbreak. It will get worse before it gets better," WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said earlier this week. The global health body wants to provide