There are now 750 suspected cases and 177 suspected deaths, and one senior official has described the effort to stop the rapid spread as “a race against the clock”.

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The World Health Organization (WHO) holds an emergency meeting after the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) killed 131 people and spread to Uganda.