A person has died from Ebola in Congo, signaling the start of a new outbreak

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The Ebola virus.

KINSHASA (Reuters) – One person has tested positive for the Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the country’s health ministry said in a statement on Friday.

The case was confirmed from tests on nine people who came down with a hemorrhagic fever in Bas-Uele province in the northeast of the country on or after April 22, the statement said, adding that two of the sufferers had died.

The World Health Organization announced on Twitter that they were informed about the outbreak on May 11 and that at least one case was confirmed to be Ebola by a national reference laboratory in Kinshasa.

The confirmed case raises concerns after the 2014-2015 Ebola epidemic in West Africa, which was the largest epidemic of the disease ever since it was first identified in 1976 in Yambuku, in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo. 

After the 2014-15 epidemic, the WHO response team concluded that the risk of human infection remained unpredictable, meaning that future outbreaks were possible, but that large epidemics could be prevented with a rapid response.

(Reuters reporting by Andrew Ross)

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