Ebola outbreak grows in DRC, Ebola Bundibugyo identified as agent

In a follow-up on the 17th known Ebola outbreak, in Ituri provice, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), since the first cases and deaths reported on Friday, the World Health Organization (WHO) reports laboratory analysis conducted by the National Institute of Biomedical Research (INRB), the country’s reference laboratory in the capital Kinshasa, confirmed the Ebola outbreak caused by the Bundibugyo species in 8 of 13 samples collected from suspected cases linked to a cluster of severe illness and deaths reported in Mongbwalu and Rwampara health zones in Ituri Province.