Brazil, Italy monitor patients for Ebola as travellers return from Africa

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Brazil and Italy are monitoring returning travelers from Africa due to Ebola cases linked to the ongoing epidemic in the conflict-affected eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Health authorities face challenges tracing contacts and gauging the outbreak’s full extent.

The virus is also being detected across a widening swath of the DRC’s conflict-hit east as health authorities struggle to trace exposed contacts and determine the true scale of the epidemic.