KINSHASA: A new Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo that has caused scores of deaths has a "very high lethality rate" and no vaccine or specific treatment, the country's health minister warned Saturday.
"The Bundibugyo strain has no vaccine, no specific treatment," Kamba told a press briefing in Kinshasa.
"This strain has a very high lethality rate, which can reach 50 percent," Samuel-Roger Kamba said in Kinshasa.
Earlier on Saturday, ministry officials said the death toll had already reached 80, up from 65 initially reported the previous day.
Tests showed the victim in Uganda was infected with the Bundibugyo strain, first identified in 2007
