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WHO Declares End Of Separate Ebola Outbreak In DR Congo

The World Health Organization (WHO) declared on Friday that an outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo was over after no people showed symptoms for two incubation periods since the last case.

The outbreak, the seventh in the former Zaire since the virus was identified there in 1976, was separate from the one spreading in Africa, where more than 5,400 people have died.


There were 49 deaths out of 66 people infected in the remote northwestern Equateur province during the three-month outbreak, Congolese authorities said last week. A WHO spokesman confirmed the figures.

Two maximum incubation periods of 21 days each must pass with no new cases being detected before the Nations health agency can declare that an outbreak is finished.

"Having reached that 42-day mark, the Republic of Congo is now considered free of Ebola transmission," the WHO said in a statement.

"WHO commends the Republic of Congo’s strong leadership and effective coordination of the response that included rapidly mobilising an expert response team to County, identifying and monitoring contacts and organizing safe burials," the WHO said.




Source: Reuters Africa
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