Seventeen
people in northwest Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have died from Ebola,
the health ministry said on Tuesday, describing the fresh outbreak as a “public
health emergency with international impact.”
“Twenty-one
cases of fever with haemorrhagic indications and 17 deaths” have been recorded
in Equateur province, it said, citing a notification to the ministry as of May
3.
It
is the DRC’s ninth known outbreak of Ebola since 1976, when the deady viral
disease was first identified in then-Zaire by a Belgian-led team.
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