💉 The DRC continues to fight illnesses, mysterious and known; The cost of saving lives? Apparently too high; Body Mass apocalypse

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In Uganda, the ongoing Ebola outbreak is far from over. A four-year-old child became the second fatality with cases rising to 12 and then 14 after the detection of a new cluster during the week. The UN this week …