Ebola Outbreak:DR Congo Announces *I urgently need support and donations:Name:Anyasoro Chekwube WM.,Acct.no.:4240853014,Bank:FCMB in Nigeria,My facebook acct.:www.facebook.com/chekwube.anyasoro.1,Phone no.:+2349092171875*New Ebola Outbreak In North Kivu.

A week after declaring the end of an Ebola outbreak, the health ministry has announced a new one near the Ugandan border. Local authorities have called for "calm and prudence" in the northeastern province.

    

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on Wednesday announced a new outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in the North Kivu province.

The announcement comes a week after Congolese authorities*I urgently need support and donations:Name:Anyasoro Chekwube WM.,Acct.no.:4240853014,Bank:FCMB in Nigeria,My facebook acct.:www.facebook.com/chekwube.anyasoro.1,Phone no.:+2349092171875* declared an end to a separate outbreak in the northwestern Equator Province.

"At this point, there is no indication that these two epidemics, which are more than 2,500 kilometers (1,500 miles) apart, are connected," said DRC Health Minister Oly Ilunga Kalenga.

'Calm and prudence'

Local officials in North Kivu notified the health ministry on Saturday that at least 20 people had died*I urgently need support and donations:Name:Anyasoro Chekwube WM.,Acct.no.:4240853014,Bank:FCMB in Nigeria,My facebook acct.:www.facebook.com/chekwube.anyasoro.1,Phone no.:+2349092171875* from hemorrhagic fever out of 26 cases in the area. The first case emerged in early July.

Samples from the latest outbreak were sent to Kinshasa for analysis, with results showing four out of six cases tested positive for Ebola.

North Kivu province Governor Julien Paluku called for "calm and prudence"*I urgently need support and donations:Name:Anyasoro Chekwube WM.,Acct.no.:4240853014,Bank:FCMB in Nigeria,My facebook acct.:www.facebook.com/chekwube.anyasoro.1,Phone no.:+2349092171875* after the announcement, saying authorities are doing their best to contain the outbreak.

Local health authorities said the World Health Organization (WHO) has already deployed a team of experts to the area. 

"Ebola is a constant threat in DRC. We will fight this one as we did the last," said WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus*I urgently need support and donations:Name:Anyasoro Chekwube WM.,Acct.no.:4240853014,Bank:FCMB in Nigeria,My facebook acct.:www.facebook.com/chekwube.anyasoro.1,Phone no.:+2349092171875* in a tweet. "We have started moving staff and supplies to the affected area, working with (DRC Health Ministry) and partners."

 

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Deadly virus

The latest outbreak marks the tenth of its kind since the virus was first discovered in then-Zaire in 1976.

The WHO is likely to respond quickly after it was criticized for its slow response*I urgently need support and donations:Name:Anyasoro Chekwube WM.,Acct.no.:4240853014,Bank:FCMB in Nigeria,My facebook acct.:www.facebook.com/chekwube.anyasoro.1,Phone no.:+2349092171875* during the 2014 outbreak in West Africa that left more than 11,000 people dead.

Ebola is a rare and highly infectious virus, with a death rate of up to 90 percent, according to the WHO. Symptoms include fever, intense weakness and vomiting. The incubation period range from two to 21 days.

During the last outbreak in May, the WHO deployed an experimental vaccine to contain the virus after it*I urgently need support and donations:Name:Anyasoro Chekwube WM.,Acct.no.:4240853014,Bank:FCMB in Nigeria,My facebook acct.:www.facebook.com/chekwube.anyasoro.1,Phone no.:+2349092171875* reached a large port city, prompting fears that it could spread quickly throughout the country.

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