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The CDC confirmed Monday that one American has tested positive for Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where an outbreak of a rare species of the virus is suspected of killing dozens of people. That person and six other American “high-risk contacts” were being flown to Germany for medical care and observation, a CDC official said.
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