Raging conflict is hampering efforts to rein in an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the World Health Organisation chief warned on Tuesday, urging a ceasefire to stop the virus from transmitting freely.

As the death toll in the outbreak declared on August 1 in DRC’s violence-wracked North Kivu province hit 41, the World Health Organisation chief also called for the rapid roll-out of an unlicenced drug being used for the first time to treat Ebola patients.

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