Health officials contain Ebola’s spread in the Congo

By Kimberly Leonard

Published July 6, 2018 8:51pm ET

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Health officials contain Ebola’s spread in the Congo — In this photo taken Saturday, June 2, 2018, a health worker checks people's temperatures as they disembark a plane at the airport in Kinshasa, Congo. Hundreds are being vaccinated in Congo's deadly Ebola outbreak but busy taxi drivers who might be ferrying the sick in Mbandaka, an infected city of more than 1 million, argue they are on the front lines as well and should receive the vaccine. | (Sam Mednick/AP)

Health officials have finished tracking down every person in the Democratic Republic of the Congo who was at risk for becoming infected with Ebola, the World Health Organization announced Friday.

Medical teams in the Congo followed up with more than 20,000 people as of June 27 to make sure they safely made it out of the 21-day incubation period without developing symptoms of the illness, which can be deadly.

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