Congo's government on Tuesday declared a new outbreak of Ebola in the country's rural northwest, after two cases of the deadly virus were confirmed in Bikoro.

 

刚果西北比科罗发现两例埃博拉病毒感染案例，政府周二宣布新一轮埃博拉病毒爆发。

 

Congo's Health Ministry¹ said that of the five samples sent to the National Institute of Biological Research in Kinshasa, two came back positive for the Zaire strain of Ebola in the country's Equateur Province.

 

The samples were gathered after the Equateur Province Health Ministry notified Kinshasa on May 3 of some 21 cases of a hemorrhagic fever in the Ikoko Impenge area, including 17 deaths, according to the World Health Organization and Congo's government. There are various hemorrhagic fevers.

 

A team was sent by the World Health Organization and Doctors Without Borders over the weekend to investigate and strengthen coordination². The five new cases were then identified and sent to the laboratory, Congo's government said.

 

Since that time, no deaths have been reported among those hospitalized or among health workers treating the ill, it said.

 

A team of experts will go to Bikoro on Wednesday to implement³ measures to avoid further spread of the disease, said the ministry statement. The team will also investigate how the outbreak first started, it said.

 

This is the ninth Ebola outbreak in Congo since 1976, when the deadly disease was first identified. Congo has a long track record with Ebola, WHO said.

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