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Franceville

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Franceville

Town in southeast Gabon, 510 km/319 mi southeast of Libreville; population (2007 est) 44,900. Lying on the east bank of the Ogooué River, Franceville is the third-largest settlement in the country, and was founded by the French explorer Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza in 1880. Uranium and manganese are mined locally to the northwest, and some gold is mined to the southeast. The main local agricultural crop is coffee.

It is the terminus of a railway line from Libreville and has a small airport.



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To anticipate epidemics, scientists with the International Medical Research Center of Franceville (CIRMF) in Gabon teamed with several academic institutions, government ministries, and international conservation groups.
When Ebola looms: human outbreaks follow animal infections by Harder, B. / Science News
Laboratory testing carried out at the Centre International de Recherches Medicales de Franceville (CIRMF) in Gabon confirmed that it was the Ebola virus.
Ebola returns. (Follow-Up) by Reinhardt, Erika / UN Chronicle
Four fleas collected from a pet monkey (Cercopithecus cephus) in Franceville, Gabon, were stored in 70% alcohol and sent to the World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborative Center for Rickettsial Reference and Research in Marseille, France, where molecular studies were performed in April 2005.
Bartonella quintana and Rickettsia felis in Gabon by Raoult, Didier / Emerging Infectious Diseases
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