Congo Declares New Ebola Outbreak in Eastern Province

Congo Declares New Ebola Outbreak in Eastern Province
File Photo: Doctors Without borders workers talk to a worker at an isolation facility, prepared to receive suspected Ebola cases, at the Mbandaka General Hospital, in Mbandaka, Democratic Republic of Congo May 20, 2018. Kenny Katombe/Reuters/File Photo
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GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo—Four people have tested positive for Ebola in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo just days after another outbreak that killed 33 people in the northwest was declared over, the health ministry said on Wednesday.

Twenty people have already died from hemorrhagic fevers in and around Mangina, a densely populated town about 30 km (18 miles) southwest of the city of Beni and 100 km from the Ugandan border, the ministry said in its statement, without saying when the deaths occurred.