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currently facing its 17th outbreak of Ebola - is more familiar with the Zaïre species. Bundibugyo has caused only two outbreaks before - in 2007 and 2012 - where it killed around 30% of people infected. Dr Kamba
outbreak. The current strain of Ebola is caused by the Bundibugyo virus, the health agency said, for which there are no approved drugs or vaccines. The WHO said there are now eight laboratory-confirmed cases
Ebola, for which vaccines are available. However, Africa CDC said early testing suggested the current outbreak was a different type, with fuller genetic sequencing results due within 24 hours. The health watchdog said
outbreak was slow in being reported due to infected communities believing it to be "witchcraft" or a "mystical illness", resulting in people seeking treatment from prayer centres and witchdoctors rather than hospitals. The first reported
Bunia after being told a body would not be released for burial. But it is essential to learn lessons from the past and to ensure affected communities are on board, says Dr Patrick Otim
Congo (DRC) are at high risk from the disease. “We are urgently scaling up operations, but at the moment the epidemic is outpacing us,” said the WHO’s director-general, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
current outbreak, a border health officer at the Busunga crossing between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo checks a traveler's temperature using a contactless infrared thermometer on May 18. **Badru Katumba/AFP/via Getty Images
Congo’s capital, Kinshasa. The WHO, however, stopped short of declaring a pandemic, saying it did not meet the necessary criteria. The United Nations agency advised countries against closing borders or restricting trade. Here
Congo’s (DRC) new Ebola disease outbreak, authorities said, as health workers race to intensify screening and contact tracing to contain the disease. Nearly 250 suspected cases of the highly contagious haemorrhagic fever have been
Congo](https://www.theguardian.com/world/congo). He said cases of the disease had been reported locally and panic was engulfing the area because of the lack of a vaccine for the Bundibudyo strain. “The fear is that