剛果民主共和國應對北部地區埃博拉病毒疫情

Experts from the Congolese health ministry are due in the northern region of country Thursday to coordinate a response to latest outbreak of the Ebola virus.

officials confirmed four cases of the Ebola virus in the North Kivu province area of Democratic Republic of the Congo, a week after Congolese and U.N. health officials announced the end of a separate outbreak that killed 33 people in the country’s northwest.

There is no evidence yet suggesting the two outbreaks in the Congo are linked.

The health ministry said there were 26 cases of hemorrhagic fever in the North Kivu province, including 20 deaths.

Six samples from these patients were tested, and four tested positive for Ebola.

Officials have said they now feel better prepared for Ebola outbreaks, in sharp contrast to the 2014 epidemic of the virus, which killed more than 11,000 people, mostly in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.剛果衛生部專家星期四前往該國北部地區，協調應對新爆發的埃博拉病毒疫情。

剛果官員證實在北基伍省發現了4個埃博拉病例。一星期前，剛果和聯合國的衛生官員宣佈剛果西北地區造成33人死亡的埃博拉疫情解除。

目前沒有任何證據顯示這兩個地方的埃博拉疫情有關聯。

剛果衛生部說，北基伍省出現了26個出血熱病例，其中20人死亡。

對這些病人中的6人進行了化驗，其中4人感染了埃博拉病毒。

有關官員說，與2014年發生埃博拉疫情時大不相同，他們現在對應對埃博拉疫情做了更好的準備。2014年大都在幾內亞、利比里亞和塞拉利昂的埃博拉疫情造成1萬1千人死亡。