WHO declares Ebola outbreak over in Democratic Republic of Congo

GENEVA: The most recent outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is over, after four people died and another four survived the disease, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Sunday.

This is DRC’s eighth outbreak of EVD since the discovery of the virus in the country in 1976. The WHO announcement came 42 days after the last confirmed Ebola patient in the affected Bas-Uele province, in northern DRC, tested negative for the disease for the second time.