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.

There are hundreds of suspected cases and dozens of people have already died.

A new outbreak of the highly contagious Ebola virus has killed dozens of people in a remote part of Congo, according to health authorities. It comes as the country battles several…