A new Ebola outbreak in DR Congo that has caused scores of deaths has a "very high lethality rate" and no vaccine nor specific treatment, the country's health minister warned Saturday. "The Bundibugyo strain has no vaccine, no specific treatment," Samuel-Roger Kamba told a press briefing in Kinshasa. "This strain has a very high lethality rate which can reach 50 percent," Kamba said. Earlier Saturday, ministry officials said the death toll had already reached 80, up from 65 initially reported the previous day. The strain has also claimed one life in neighbouring Uganda, officials said Saturday, that of a DR Congo national. That correlated with an announcement late Friday by Uganda's health ministry, which said a 59-year-old man from the DR Congo had died in Kampala after being admitted earlier in the week. His body was repatriated the same day. Tests showed the victim in Uganda was infected with the Bundibugyo strain, first identified in 2007.
New Ebola outbreak hits DR Congo
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