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Ryan Fahey

Ebola alert: Second patient dies in days - WHO warns 'time is NOT on our side'

A second Ebola patient has died just days after a fresh outbreak emerged, the World Health Organization (WHO) said.

The WHO has found that an infection confirmed last week in the Democratic Republic of Congo was a new "spillover event" - a transmission from an infected animal.

This means it is a completely new infection and is not linked to the last outbreak in December.

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