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WHO chief says Ebola 'can be stopped' as he lands in DR Congo

A man hangs an Ebola awareness banner in the Kigonze displaced persons camp in Bunia, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. (Photo: AFP)

KINSHASA - The UN health chief said on Thursday the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo which has claimed over 200 lives can be stopped, as he arrived to oversee the fight against the highly infectious disease.

World Health Organization (WHO) head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus's plane landed in the capital Kinsasha on Thursday evening. He is set on Friday to travel to Ituri province in the northeastern DRC, the epidemic's epicentre.

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