GENEVA, May 19 (Reuters) - The head of the World Health Organization on Tuesday expressed concern at the speed and scale of the Ebola outbreak, as number of cases rises.
There are at least 500 suspected cases and 130 suspected deaths from Ebola since the new outbreak began, WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.
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That is in addition to one confirmed death and one confirmed case in Kampala, Uganda, and 30 cases being confirmed in the Democratic Republic of Congo, from the northeastern province of Ituri, he said.
(Reporting by Olivia Le Poidevin, Editing by Linda Pasquini)