"DAKAR (Reuters) - Democratic Republic of Congo’s government has declared an epidemic of mea-sles, which the latest health ministry figures show has now killed at least 1,500 people, more than a hundred more than have died of Ebola. While health officials have focused on the hemorrhagic Ebola virus in Congo’s east, about 87,000 suspected measles cases have been reported across the coun-try so far this year, more than the 65,000 recorded in the whole of last year. Congo’s health minis-try announced the measles figure when it declared the epidemic on Monday."