In the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a person who died of a hemorrhagic fever has been tested positive for the Ebola virus, signaling the start of a new outbreak, the Health Ministry and the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday, May 12.
According to ministry statement, "The case was confirmed from tests on nine people who came down with a hemorrhagic fever in Bas-Uele province in the north of the country on or after April 22." And three people already dead of fever.
The last outbreak of Ebola in Congo was in 2014 and killed 42 people. In June last year WHO declared Liberia free of active Ebola virus transmission. Liberia was the last country still fighting the world’s worst outbreak of the virus.
Ebola killed more than 11,300 people and infected some 28,600 from 2013, as it swept through Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia and caused alarm around the world.
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