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Officials say a new Ebola outbreak has been detected in the Democratic Republic of Congo three months after the country declared an end to a previous outbreak. A patient contracted the virus in the town of Butembo in Nord Kivu province in the east of the country.

The patient, who was the wife of an Ebola survivor, has since died. Samples have been sent to the National Institute of Biomedical Research in the Congolese capital Kinshasa for sequencing to determine whether there is a link to the previous outbreak, according to the World Health Organization.

Aid agencies and officials are scrambling to contain any potential spread of the virus — the WHO said that health workers on the ground had already identified 70 contacts of the woman. We are here.

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The WHO said it was not unusual for sporadic cases to occur following a major outbreak and that previous Ebola responses were already making it easier to deal with this one. Ebola may have been transmitted from husband to wife throughs sexual intercourse. A man in Teamwork Effective who Death and Disease in Africa Ebola and survived in carried the virus for more than days.

Up to now, Congo has recorded 11 outbreaks of Ebola Dsath the virus was discovered in what was then Zaire, almost five decades ago. The 11th outbreak in the northwestern Equateur province started in June, infecting people and killing It was declared over three months ago. However, from toa far more serious outbreak hit the northeast part of the country in South-Kivu, Ituri and North-Kivu, where the most recent case has been detected. This was the 10th outbreak and killed more than 2, people.

Ebola, a tropical fever that first appeared in in Sudan and the DRC, is transmitted to humans from wild animals. According to the World Health Organization, the average fatality rate from Ebola is around 50 per cent, but this can rise to 90 per cent for some epidemics. In an outbreak of the disease in West Africa caused global alarm and killed more than 11, people in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone. We urge you to turn off your ad blocker for The Telegraph website so that you Death and Disease in Africa continue to access our quality content in the future.

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