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The Democratic Republic of the Congo Government (DRC) on Thursday stated that the new Ebola outbreak in the central province of Kasai.

The latest outbreak is the 16th of the country since 1976.

Minister of Health, Roger Kamba, announced a press conference in the Kinshasa capital that the Zaire type of the Ebola virus has reappeared in the Bulape health zone, with 28 cases suspected, including 15 deaths, reported.

“These figures remain temporary, because the investigation is still ongoing,” Kamba said, emphasizing that the announcement was guided by transparency and scientific stiffness.

The Ministry of Health has said in the previous statement that the index case was a 34 -year -old pregnant woman who was treated at the Bulape General Reference Hospital on August 20 with sudden fever symptoms, some bleeding, bleeding, vomiting blood, and severe fatigue.

He died on August 25 due to several organ failures.

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The last DRC stated the end of the Ebola outbreak in September 2022, after one case was confirmed in the eastern province of North Kivu.

The test shows that this case genetically related to the 2018-2020 outbreak in the provinces of North Kivu and Ituri, which killed nearly 2,300 people.

Ebola disease first occurred in 1976 in two simultaneous outbreaks: one is a Sudan virus disease in Nzara in a place that is now South Sudan, and the other is the Ebola virus disease in Yambuku, in the current place DRC.

The latter happened in a village near the Ebola river, from which the disease took its name, according to the world health organization.

Ebola is a very contagious hemorrhagic fever that causes various symptoms such as fever, vomiting, diarrhea, general pain, or malaise, and in many cases, internal and external bleeding.