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Africa-Press – Botswana. <\/strong><\/span>Democratic Republic of Congo says it has recorded a new case of Ebola in its violence-wracked east, less than six weeks after an epidemic in the country’s northwest was declared over.<\/b><\/p>\n

A sample from a 46-year-old woman who died on August 15 in the city of Beni in North Kivu province, “tested positive” for Ebola, the health ministry said in a statement published late on Monday.<\/p>\n

Genetic sequencing found the case was linked to a previous strain of the virus from 2018 and was not a new variant, it said.<\/p>\n

The ministry assured the public that officials were “hard at work on the ground” to respond to the situation.<\/p>\n

Around 160 people have been identified as contact cases, it added.<\/p>\n

On July 4, the authorities declared the end to an outbreak that lasted nearly three months in the northwestern province of Equateur that had claimed five lives.<\/p>\n

“Ebola resurgences are occurring with greater frequency in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which is concerning,” Matshidiso Moeti, the World Health Organization’s regional director for Africa, said.<\/p>\n

“However, health authorities in North Kivu have successfully stopped several Ebola flare-ups and building on this expertise will no doubt bring this one under control quickly,” Moeti said in a statement on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

WHO said there were 1,000 doses of ERVEBO vaccine in the country to help ring-fence the spread, 200 of which will be sent to Beni this week.<\/p>\n

Ebola is an often fatal viral haemorrhagic fever. The disease is named after a river in DRC where it was discovered in 1976.<\/p>\n

Human transmission is through body fluids, with the main symptoms being fever, vomiting, bleeding and diarrhoea.<\/p>\n

The WHO had announced on Saturday that a suspected case of Ebola in the east was being investigated.<\/p>\n

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