Two years after the virus killed dozens of people in the DRC, the UN health agency has confirmed a new deadly case. The last outbreak coincided with, but was unrelated to, the West African pandemic from 2014 to 2016.
The Ebola virus has returned to the Democratic Republic of the Congo more than two years since its last major outbreak, the World Health Organization announced on Friday.
Three people died from a fever, one of whom tested positive for the Ebola virus. Health authorities identified nine people who were suffering from a hemorrhagic fever in Bas-Uele province in the northeast of the country on or after April 22, the DRC Ministry of Public Health said in a statement.
"Our country must confront an outbreak of the Ebola virus that constitutes a public health crisis of international significance," the ministry said.
The WHO posted details of the case on Twitter, saying it had been notified by the DRC Ministry of Public Health.
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