Congo's Ebola epidemic inflicts heavy toll on children


  • World
  • Thursday, 30 May 2019

FILE PHOTO: A health worker updates data on a board at an Ebola transit centre in town of Katwa, near Butembo, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, March 25, 2019. REUTERS/Baz Ratner

BUTEMBO, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - Eight-year-old Kennedy Muhindo was running a high fever and racked by stomach pain and diarrhoea.

Health workers told him he had Ebola but his first thought was for his sister who had been battling the virus.

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