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How the coverage framed it

Coverage of this story was essentially uniform across outlets, reflecting a bias spread of 0.0 points. Both ABC and NBC used nearly identical wire-style language, with the only substantive difference being a minor structural one: ABC opened with the possessive "Congo's Ebola deaths," while NBC used the slightly more formal construction "Congo Ebola outbreak deaths." Neither variation carries ideological weight. Both headlines shared the same core framing — anchoring on the death toll milestone of 5,000 and pairing it with the phrase "fear of continent-wide spread mounts" — which scorers identified as neutral and factual with no partisan signals present. The shared emphasis on geographic risk escalation reflects standard public-health reporting conventions rather than any ideological lean. Readers can treat the framing across these outlets as consistent and largely interchangeable on this story.