A announcement by a health ministry comes nearly three months after the DRC announced an end to its 11th Ebola uprising.
A new case of Ebola has been identified near the eastern city of Butembo in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the country’s health ministry has announced.
A woman was found with signs of the deadly virus in the city of Biena on February 1, who died at the hospital in Butembo on February 3. She was married to a man who contracted the virus in a previous uprising.
“The department’s response team is already hard working. He will be supported by the national response team that will visit Butembo soon, ”the ministry said in a statement on Sunday.
The news could mark the beginning of the 12th Ebola outbreak from the DRC since the virus was discovered near the Ebola River in 1976, more than twice as much as in any other country.
It comes almost three months after the DRC announced that its 11th revolution came hundreds of kilometers away in the west, affecting 130 people and killing 55. The uprising took place. that over by an earlier man in the east who killed more than 2,200 people, the second in the history of the disease.
The emergence of more cases could cause problems to eradicate COVID-19, which has killed 23,600 people and killed 681 in the DRC. A vaccination campaign is expected to begin in the first half of this year.
Ebola is a bloody fever caused by a virus that is spread through contact with body fluids. In real cases, it causes fatal bleeding from internal organs, mouth, eyes or ears.