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The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared that an Ebola outbreak in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

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A rodent-borne virus with a scary name. A mid-ocean cruise ship in quarantine. Several people dead and more falling sick.It is no wonder that an outbreak of the Andes strain of hantavirus on a luxury ...