The Democratic Republic of Congo has reported a resurgence of the Ebola Virus Disease, after a woman died of the virus barely three months after authorities declared an end to the country’s previous outbreak.
Announcing this on the state television, RTNC, on Sunday, the country’s Ministry of Health said the new case emerged in the Biena health zone of North Kivu province.
According to the ministry, the victim is a farmer and wife of an Ebola survivor, who showed typical symptoms of the disease on February 1 and died on February 3.
Ebola haemorrhagic fever was first identified in 1976 after scientists investigated a string of unexplained deaths in recent northern DR Congo.
The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that the average fatality rate from the virus is around 50 per cent but can rise to 90 per cent for some epidemics.