Congo Declares End of Latest Ebola Outbreak in East

Congo Declares End of Latest Ebola Outbreak in East
A man receives a vaccine against Ebola from a nurse outside the Afia Himbi Health Center in Goma, Congo on July 15, 2019. Pamela Tulizo/AFP via Getty Images
Reuters
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KINSHASA—Democratic Republic of Congo has declared the end of its latest Ebola virus outbreak in the eastern province of North Kivu, Health Minister Jean-Jacques Mbungani Mbanda said in a statement on Tuesday.

The fifteenth outbreak in the central African country emerged when a new case of the deadly virus was confirmed in the eastern city of Beni on Aug. 22.