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Mongbwalu Ebola Center Has No Patients After Final Patient Recovers

Al Jazeera said Mongbwalu was the outbreak's starting point; footage showed health workers celebrating the patient's departure.

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Health workers celebrate outside an Ebola treatment center in Mongbwalu, Democratic Republic of the Congo. / EconoTimes.ai
Health workers celebrate outside an Ebola treatment center in Mongbwalu, Democratic Republic of the Congo. / EconoTimes.ai

The final patient at an Ebola treatment center in Mongbwalu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, recovered and left, leaving the facility without patients, Al Jazeera reported Thursday.

Al Jazeera said the latest outbreak began in Mongbwalu and identified Doctors Without Borders as the organization operating the center. Video accompanying the report showed health workers singing and dancing at the facility.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo has opened a clinical trial testing Ebola vaccines against Bundibugyo virus, EconoTimes previously reported.

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