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GENEVA \u2014 The head of the World Health Organization said Friday the Ebola outbreak in Congo is \u201cspreading rapidly\u201d and now poses a \u201cvery high\u201d risk at the national level.<\/p>\n

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WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the U.N. health agency was revising upward to \u201cvery high\u201d its assessment of the risk within Congo, which had previously been deemed as high. The risk remains high for regional spread and low at global levels, he told reporters.<\/p>\n

The WHO chief noted that 82 cases have been confirmed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with seven confirmed deaths, \u201cbut we know the epidemic in DRC is much larger.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said there are now almost 750 suspected cases and 177 suspected deaths. The situation in neighboring Uganda is \u201cstable\u201d with two cases confirmed in people who had traveled from Congo, with one death.<\/p>\n

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Earlier on Friday, the United Nations said it released $60 million from its Central Emergency Response Fund to accelerate the response in Congo and in the region. The U.S. has pledged $23 million in funding to bolster the response in Congo and Uganda, and said it would also fund the establishment of up to 50 Ebola treatment clinics in the affected regions of Congo and Uganda.<\/p>\n

Ugandan authorities said they were not aware of any treatment centers being set up by the U.S.<\/p>\n

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