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Outbreak hits soldiers in Bumba

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    Meanwhile, an outbreak of a similar haemorrhagic fever reported last week in the Bumba area of Province Equateur appeared less alarming than originally rumoured, the MSF spokeswoman said. Latest available information indicates that the Bumba outbreak had involved five or six patients since early February, all of them military personnel who were subsequently transferred to Kampala, she said. No deaths were reported. "It is not clear if it's the same thing, and it could be viral hepatitis," she said, adding that samples from those patients were currently being
    analysed.

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