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To the Editor: We believe that Ndayimirije and Kindhauser's characterization of Watsa and Durba, the Democratic Republic of Congo, the locations of the first Marburg outbreak in Africa, as "two sparsely populated villages in a remote corner of the country" (May 26 issue)¹ is misleading. Watsa is a town. In Durba, there was a gold rush, with thousands of young men, often from an urban background, living in crowded conditions; there was a lot of traffic toward Uganda. Watsa and Durba are not cities, like Uige, but are different from the truly rural, remote, and sparsely populated border areas of . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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