A new case of Ebola fever is reported in Congo.
A new case of Ebola hemorrhagic fever has been confirmed in the northwest of the Democratic Republic of Congo, four months after the end of the last outbreak in the country.
The National Institute of Biomedical Research said Saturday that a 31-year-old man was found to be infected in the town of Mbandaka, the capital of Congo’s Equateur province.
The patient’s symptoms began on April 5, but he did not seek treatment for more than a week. He was admitted to an Ebola treatment center on April 21 and died later that day, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in a statement.
Congo has seen 13 previous Ebola outbreaks and Mbandaka has fought two of them, in 2018 and 2020.
The spread of Ebola in 2018-2020, in the east of the country, killed nearly two thousand and 300 people, the second highest number recorded in the history of hemorrhagic fever.
The latest outbreak, also in the east of the country, infected 11 people between October and December and killed six of them.