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Attacks on Ebola centers in Congo raise fears that the disease will spread

PATH OF DESTRUCTION The day after at least 20 tornadoes tore through southeastern states including Alabama on March 3, Jessica Chandler sits amid the wreckage of her neighborhood in Beauregard, Lee County, Alabama, where one tornado carved a path nearly a mile wide and over 24 miles long. Across the state, at least 23 people died—more than double the death toll from all tornadoes nationwide last year.

AFTER A SPATE OF ATTACKS ON EBOLA treatment facilities at the center of an outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) suspended operations in the area on Feb. 28.

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