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KINSHASA: An outbreak of the Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo has killed 31 people and the epidemic remains contained in a remote northwestern region, UN the World Health Organization (WHO) said Tuesday.
“There are now 31 deaths,” Eugene Kambambi, the WHO’s head of communication in DR Congo, told AFP, citing Congolese authorities and stressing that the epidemic “remains contained” in an area around 800 km north of the capital Kinshasa.
Health officials had previously given a death toll of 13 people from the lethal hemorrhagic fever since Aug. 11 around the isolated town of Boende, surrounded by dense tropical forest in Equateur province.
Kabambi was speaking by telephone from Mbandaka, the provincial capital, where he was accompanied by Health Minister Felix Kabange Numbi and the WHO representative in DRC, Joseph Cabore. The three were due to travel later Tuesday to the Boende area, which has already been quarantined.
The government announced on Aug. 25 that the DRC was facing its 7th Ebola outbreak since the disease was first identified in the former Zaire in 1976.