The Democratic Republic
of Congo has declared its three-month Ebola outbreak officially over after 42
days without recording a new case of the disease.
Congo's
outbreak, which killed 49 of the 66 people infected in the remote northwestern
Equateur province, is unrelated to the outbreak in West Africa, where at least
5,177 people are known to have died in the worst Ebola outbreak on record.
"No
new cases have been registered since October 4," Health Minister Felix
Kabange told reporters in Kinshasa on Saturday.
"After
42 days of active searching, the government declares…the end of the outbreak of
the Ebola virus," he added.
Forty-two
days is the internationally-accepted period for declaring Ebola over as it
represents two full cycles of the maximum possible incubation period of the
disease.
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