Up to 12 people have been found infected with Ebola in a new outbreak of the deadly disease in the Democratic Republic of Congo, WHO says.
Mbandaka suffered a small Ebola outbreak in 2018 that killed 33 people. Health officials say vaccinations and swift containment efforts including mobile handwashing stations and a door-to-door education campaign kept it at bay.
The new cases in Mbandaka mark the country's 11th major Ebola outbreak since the virus was discovered near northern Congo's Ebola River in 1976. It is Congo's third outbreak in two years of the virus which causes vomiting, diarrhea and external bleeding.
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