According to the BBC, the World Health Organisation has
reported that the Ebola outbreak in DR Congo has spread from the
countryside into a city, prompting fears that the disease will be
increasingly hard to control.
Health Minister Oly Ilunga Kalenga confirmed a case in Mbandaka, a
city of a million people about 130km (80 miles) from the area where the
first cases were confirmed earlier this month.
The city is a major transportation hub with routes to the capital Kinshasa.
Forty-two people have now been infected and 23 people are known to have died.
Ebola is a serious infectious illness that causes internal bleeding
and often proves fatal. It can spread rapidly through contact with
small amounts of bodily fluid and its early flu-like symptoms are not
always obvious.