One person has tested positive for the Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the health ministry said in a statement on Friday.
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The case was confirmed from tests on nine people who came down with a hemorrhagic fever in Bas-Uele province in the northeast of the country on or after April 22, the statement said, adding that two of the sufferers had died.