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A second person has died in Democratic Republic of Congo’s 12th recorded outbreak of Ebola, the World Health Organization and the country’s health ministry announced today (February 11). The 60-year-old woman had links to another woman, who was married to a survivor of an earlier outbreak in DRC and who died a few days earlier, according to Reuters.
The cases occurred in the North Kivu province of the country, where a previous outbreak of the disease was declared over by the World Health Organization (WHO) last summer. By then, there had been more than 2,000 deaths since that outbreak’s start in DRC in 2018.
The first person to have died in the latest outbreak was a 42-year-old woman who likely contracted the disease sexually from her husband, according to a WHO official interviewed by The Washington Post. “The evidence has grown over the years that the ...
