Concerns raised that cases were caused by a new strain of the virus as African health officials race to coordinate and contain the infection
An outbreak of Ebola has killed 65 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, according to African health officials.
There have been 246 suspected cases of the deadly haemorrhagic fever reported so far in Ituri province, which shares borders with Uganda and South Sudan.
Officials at the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said they were concerned about the risk of further spread. The area is home to mining towns where people are constantly coming and going, making infectious disease control challenging.
Ebola is a severe illness with a high fatality rate that spreads through direct contact with body fluids such as the blood or vomit of infected people, or dead bodies, such as during funeral preparations.
