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August 16, 2016

Catholic Relief uses lessons learned from Ebola to fight Zika in Cape Verde

Women are seen near a market in Praia, Cape Verde, in this 2004 file photo. The African nation of half a million people has 7,500 confirmed cases of the Zika virus, but health officials suspect more cases are unreported.

CAPE TOWN, South Africa – The dust had hardly settled on Catholic Relief Services' work fighting the world's worst Ebola outbreak before the team was putting together a response to the Zika virus in the West African island nation of Cape Verde.

Published in International