Ebola started 3 months earlier than official declaration

The WHO says that sequencing shows that the fast moving Ebola outbreak in DR Congo started about 3 months before the emergency was officially declared in May. Also, its crunch week for Zambia as voters gear up for elections. And a Rwandan mine has become one of the US's main suppliers of tungsten, a metal critical to t

The WHO regional director for Africa, Dr. Mohamed Yakub Janabi, said sequencing indicated the outbreak’s start, with some cases early wrongly attributing to malaria and typhoid.

The shift comes as confirmed cases climbed to 4,209 and deaths totaled 1,916, pushing the outbreak's crude case-fatality ratio to 45.5%.