VERIFIED QUOTE · reported 2026-08-21
“The epidemic is spreading widely. It's now covering an area that is bigger than France,”
Julien Harneis · said 2026-08-21 · reported 2026-08-21
Julien Harneis addressed journalists regarding the alarming geographic scale and death toll of the Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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