As of 26 December 2008, the World Health Organization (WHO) said it had been informed of 34 suspected Ebola cases, including 9 deaths (CFR 26%) associated with the current event.
The health authorities of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) announced a return of the Ebola virus, which has already been nine deaths in the province of Kasai, located south of the DRC.
There is to date no treatment against the Ebola virus, which kills 50 to 90% of victims lros phases epidemic.
The Ebola virus has appeared on 27 November 2008 in the Kasai Occidental. Samples of blood and stools were then sent to laboratories based in Gabon and South Africa for analysis. Following the results of these tests taken at Kalwamba, "it is now clear that we are facing an epidemic of viral haemorrhagic fever Ebola," said Congolese Minister of Health, Auguste Mopipi Mukulumanya. As of 26 December 2008, the World Health Organization (WHO) said it had been informed of 34 suspected Ebola cases, including 9 deaths (CFR 26%) associated with the current event. Samples have been collected and are en route to the National Institute for Biological Research (INRB) in Kinshasa.
 |  . As of 26 December 2008, the World Health Organization (WHO) said it had been informed of 34 suspected Ebola cases, including 9 deaths (CFR 26%) associated with the current event.  |
The Ministry of Health of the Democratic Republic of the Congo said on December 25, an outbreak of Ebola haemorrhagic fever in the district of Mweka, in the province of Kasai Occidental, based on analysis done by the laboratory of the Observatoire International de Recherches Médicales de Franceville (CIRMF) in Gabon. In addition, tests conducted préiminaires by the laboratory of the National Institute of Biological Research (INRB) in Kinshasa, also confirmed the presence of Ebola virus.
For its part, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) has sent a team of doctors, nurses and logisticians to Kasai Occidental. Specialists from the haemorrhagic fever and epidemiologists are expected in this region.
In September-October 2007, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) had already experienced an outbreak of Ebola in the region of Kasai Occidental.
The Ministry of Health had confirmed that as at 2 October 2007, the tests for fever of Ebola had been positive for 25 cases of 76 suspects identified in the southern province of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC ).
In April-June 2005, a total of 12 cases of Ebola virus infection (1 laboratory-confirmed and 11 have an epidemiological link), including 9 deaths have been reported in Etoumbi and Mbomo in the region of Cuvette West, DRC . Le dernier décès signalé s'était produit le 26 mai. The last reported death occurred on May 26,
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