Brazil monitors two patients for possible Ebola as outbreak spreads beyond Africa

Over 246 deaths reported in DR Congo outbreak; 1,000+ suspected cases across DR Congo and Uganda with potential for further spread.

Two travelers — one from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, one from Uganda by way of Belgium — arrived in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro carrying fevers and uncertain histories, setting Brazil's public health apparatus into motion. If either tests positive for Ebola, it would mark the first confirmed case outside Africa since the current outbreak began, an outbreak driven by the rare Bundibugyo strain that has already claimed 246 lives and touched over a thousand suspected victims. The world watches not because spread is likely, but because the distance between continents has never been a re

Brazil monitors two patients for possible Ebola as outbreak spreads beyond Africa

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