DR Congo Hit By Ebola Outbreak

The disease has returned to the country, more than two years since its last major outbreak, the World Health Organization announced on Friday.

Health authorities have identified nine people who were suffering from a hemorrhagic fever in Bas-Uele province in the northeast of the country (file photo).

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    DW, 12 May 2017

    Two years after the virus killed dozens of people in the DRC, the UN health agency has confirmed a new deadly case. Its last outbreak coincided, but was unrelated to the West… Read more »

  • Congo-Kinshasa:   Ebola Intervention Comes to an End

    MSF, 17 November 2014

    The Ebola outbreak that started in August in the north of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is now under control as no new cases have been detected after the last confirmed… Read more »

  • Congo-Kinshasa:   Kinshasa Says It's Ebola Free

    DW, 15 November 2014

    The health minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo says his country is free of Ebola. Congo's three-month outbreak killed nearly 50 people. The viral strain involved was… Read more »

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