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World’s Second-Deadliest Ebola Outbreak Ends in Democratic Republic of the Congo

World’s Second-Deadliest Ebola Outbreak Ends in Democratic Republic of the Congo

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https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/worlds-second-deadliest-ebola-outbreak-ends-in-democratic-republic-of-the-congo/

An outbreak of the Ebola virus in the northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) that has been raging since 2018 has officially ended. The World Health Organization (WHO) and the DRC government announced the end on 25 June—42 days after the last case—but it comes as a fresh Ebola outbreak spreads in the country’s northwest.

“We are extremely proud to have emerged victorious over an epidemic that has lasted a long time and caused a lot of damage to our population,” said Jean-Jacques Muyembe Tamfum, a co-discoverer of Ebola and the director of the National Institute for Biomedical Research in Kinshasa, at a press briefing.