Congo begins Monday with vaccination against Ebola

The vaccination program to contain Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo starts Monday.

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That was the ninth outbreak in Congo since the discovery of the dreaded disease in the 1970s. Now that patients in Mbandaka, a busy port on the Congo River, have also been diagnosed, the authorities fear that the virus will spread downstream to Kinshasa. 10 million people live in the capital.