KINSHASA (Reuters) -Democratic Republic of Congo on Thursday declared a new outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus after a case was confirmed in the southern Kasai province, saying there were now 28 suspected cases and 15 deaths.
This will be the Central African country’s sixteenth Ebola outbreak, the health ministry said in a statement.
It said the presence of the virus had been confirmed in a 34-year-old pregnant woman who was hospitalised in August with symptoms including a high fever and repeated vomiting.
(Reporting by Yassin Kombi and Benoit Nyemba; Writing by Anait Miridzhanian; Editing by Alexander Winning and Sharon Singleton)
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