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There is no known cure but some affected people have recovered after being given an experimental drug, ZMapp. However, supplies are now exhausted. Also on Sunday, a British health worker infected with Ebola in Sierra Leone was flown back to the UK on RAF jet. It is the first confirmed case of a Briton contracting the virus during the current outbreak. Several people died in the past month after contracting an unidentified fever in the Equateur region of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
On Sunday, Health Minister Felix Kabange Numbi said two of eight fever victims had tested positive for Ebola. He told the BBC a quarantine zone would be set up in a 100-km (62-mile) radius in Boende where the cases had been registered. He said this marked the seventh outbreak in DRC. The virus was first identified here in 1976 near the Ebola River. Numbi added that further tests were being carried out.
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