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Ebola death toll in Congo tops 4,000 in fastest-growing outbreak on record

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Congo's Ebola outbreak has now recorded more than 4,000 deaths, authorities said, in what has become the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in history​.

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Both outlets frame the story around the Ebola outbreak in Congo, but Sky News foregrounds the death toll and the authorities’ struggle to contain the virus. The Associated Press instead leads with mobile laboratories and the hope they offer, with the lab scene in Butembo as its focus. The only outlet-specific detail in the extracts is AP’s emphasis on the mobile lab.

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