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DRC has had [16 outbreaks of Ebola](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/10/ebola-disease-outbreak-democratic-republic-congo-drc-kasai) since the virus was identified there in 1976. Typically they have had the Zaire strain of Ebola, for which vaccines are available. However, Africa
outbreak from escalating further,” she added. ## What is Ebola? Ebola is a severe and often fatal viral disease first identified in 1976 near the Ebola River in what is now the DRC. The virus
DRC’s Health Minister Samuel-Roger Kamba said on Saturday. “This strain has a very high lethality rate, which can reach 50 percent.” The outbreak, the country’s seventeenth, was confirmed on Friday