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U.S. Government Beefs Up Presence Near Congo's Ebola Epicenter

Health workers inside the "red zone" of an Ebola treatment center in Butembo, which was attacked on March 9.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has had a light presence when it comes to the Democratic Republic of Congo's Ebola outbreak. But now that is changing.

, the CDC director, tells NPR that he'll be assigning about a dozen health experts to work in the DRC for a year and positioning at least some of them much

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