A handout photo made available by the World Health Organization shows temperature screening at Mpondwe border point with the Democratic Republic of Congo, near Bwera, Uganda, in May 2019. The Democratic Republic of Congo declared an Ebola outbreak on Friday as 65 people have died from the disease in the country’s eastern region. File Photo by the World Health Organization/EPA-EFE
May 15 (UPI) -- The Democratic Republic of Congo declared an Ebola outbreak on Friday as 65 people have died from the disease in the country's eastern region.
There have been about 246 cases reported, many of them in the Ituri province's small mining towns of Mongbwalu and Rwampara. The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said in a statement Friday that it is meeting with DRC, Ugandan and South Sudanese leaders to prepare a response to the outbreak.
Uganda and South Sudan border the Ituri province.
Africa CDC said that the DRC's national research laboratory has detected Ebola in 13 of 20 samples it has tested.
