More than 50 people have died in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, most within 48 hours of the onset of symptoms. Initial analysis suggests neither Ebola nor Marburg is the cause.

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The WHO has sent epidemiologists to the country to uncover the cause of the illness, which has killed more than 70 people, half of them children.