Claim: New Ebola case in Congo, days before outbreak’s expected end.
Verdict: SUPPORTS

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title: 2014 Democratic Republic of the Congo Ebola virus outbreak
text: since the last reported case tested negative for the second time and was discharged. It was stated that the DRC would therefore be declared free of Ebola disease 42 days after the date of the second negative test if no new cases were reported. The outbreak was declared over on 15 November 2014. In October 2014, it was reported that more recent findings suggested that there may have been several previous cases. The husband of the woman that was believed to have been the index case told an investigation team that shortly before she became ill she had visited two

title: West African Ebola virus epidemic
text: on the Guinean border. Sierra Leone had entered a 90-day period of enhanced surveillance that was scheduled to end on 5 February 2016, when, on 14 January, a new Ebola death was reported in the Tonkolili District. Prior to this case, the WHO had advised that "we still anticipate more flare-ups and must be prepared for them. A massive effort is underway to ensure robust prevention, surveillance and response capacity across all three countries by the end of March." On 16 January, aid workers reported that a woman had died of the virus and that she may have exposed several

title: 2017 Democratic Republic of the Congo Ebola virus outbreak
text: DRC Minister of Public Health, Dr Oly Ilunga Kalenga, declared that the country had passed a 42-day period with no new recorded cases, and therefore the outbreak was over. A subsequent outbreak of Ebola was declared by WHO on 8 May 2018, in the northwest Province of Équateur. The first "situation report" from the WHO on 15 May 2017 listed 19 suspected cases and 3 deaths. The first person to request treatment was a 39-year-old male. On 16 May, the WHO indicated that there had been 21 suspected cases and 3 deaths. Approximately 400 additional individuals were being monitored in

title: Ebola virus epidemic in Sierra Leone
text: gone 8 days without an Ebola case, and was down to two confirmed cases of Ebola. The WHO weekly update for 29 July reported a total of only three new cases, the lowest total in more than a year. On 17 August, the country had its first week with no new cases, and one week later the last patients were released. A new death was reported on 1 September after a patient from Sella Kafta village in Kambia District was tested positive for the disease after her death. On 5 September another case of Ebola was identified in the village

title: 2018 Équateur province Ebola outbreak
text: 500 people in the city had been vaccinated. On 29 May, the WHO indicated that nine neighbouring countries had been alerted for being at high risk of spread of EVD, On 4 June, it was reported that Angola had closed its border with the DRC due to the outbreak. This outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo was declared over on 24 July 2018 after 42 days passed without any new confirmed cases. However, it is noted that a new outbreak occurred only one week later in the eastern region of Kivu, and it has not been established whether

title: Ebola virus epidemic in Sierra Leone
text: to this case WHO had advised, "we anticipate more flare-ups and must be prepared for them ... massive effort is underway to ensure robust prevention, surveillance and response capacity across all three countries by the end of March." On 16 January, it was reported that the woman who died of the virus may have exposed several individuals; the government announced that 100 people had been quarantined. On the same day, WHO released a statement, indicating that originally the 90-day enhanced surveillance period was to end on 5 February. Investigations indicate the female case was a student at Lunsar in Port

title: 2014 Democratic Republic of the Congo Ebola virus outbreak
text: suspected or likely cases. On 9 September, the WHO raised the number of cases to 62 and the death toll to 35 from possible or confirmed Ebola cases. Included in this number were 9 health-care workers with 7 deaths among them. In total, 386 contacts were listed and 239 contacts were being followed. The outbreak was still contained in Jeera county in the Boende region. As of 28 October, there had been 66 cases reported. In total, 49 deaths had been reported, including eight among health care workers. No new reported contacts were being followed and twenty days had passed

title: 2017 Democratic Republic of the Congo Ebola virus outbreak
text: the same region of the DRC. On 17 May, WHO said that the number of individuals being monitored had risen to about 416, while the following day, the number of confirmed and suspected cases had risen to 29. As of 24 May, 520 individuals were reported to be on the contact list to monitor their health status. Of those, 226 had completed 21 days of monitoring. As of 27 May, 30 cases had been reclassified as not Ebola-related. On 13 May 2017, Doctors Without Borders indicated that they would send a team to the most recently affected area in the

title: 2018 Kivu Ebola outbreak
text: the Democratic Republic of the Congo, though there are as yet no confirmed cases in the country of Uganda. According to the International Red Cross, a 'most likely scenario' entails an asymptomatic case will at some point enter the country of Uganda undetected among the numerous refugees coming from the DRC. On 20 September Uganda indicated it was ready for immediate vaccination, should the Ebola virus be detected in any individual. On 21 September, officials of the Democratic Republic of the Congo indicated a confirmed case of EVD at Lake Albert, an entry point into Uganda, though no case has

title: 2018 Kivu Ebola outbreak
text: as "probable cases". The Uganda Ministry of Health has issued an alert for extra surveillance as the neighboring outbreak in the DRC is just away from its border. On 7 August, the DRC Ministry of Public Health indicated that the total count had climbed to almost 90 cases; two days later, on 9 August, it was nearly 100 cases. On 16 August, the United Kingdom indicated it would help with EVD diagnosis and monitoring in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. On 17 August, the WHO reported that "contacts" numbered about 1500 individuals, however there could be more in certain

title: 2018 Kivu Ebola outbreak
text: zones. The five suspected cases in the Mambasa Health Zone proved not to be EVD; it was not possible to confirm the one probable case in the Musienene Health Zone and the two probable cases in the Butembo health zone. No new cases had been recorded in any of those health zones. The first confirmed case in Butembo was announced on 4 September, the same day that it was announced that one of the cases registered at Beni had actually come from the Kalunguta Health Zone. The DRC Ministry of Public Health confirmed that the new Ebola outbreak is caused

title: Ebola virus disease
text: new case was detected in Sierra Leone on 14 January 2016. However, the outbreak was declared no longer an emergency on 29 March 2016. On 19 September, Eric Duncan flew from his native Liberia to Texas; 5 days later he began showing symptoms and visited a hospital but was sent home. His condition worsened and he returned to the hospital on 28 September, where he died on 8 October. Health officials confirmed a diagnosis of Ebola on 30 September – the first case in the United States. In early October, Teresa Romero, a 44-year-old Spanish nurse, contracted Ebola after caring

title: 2014 Democratic Republic of the Congo Ebola virus outbreak
text: 2014 Democratic Republic of the Congo Ebola virus outbreak In 2014, an outbreak of Ebola virus disease in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) occurred. Genome sequencing has shown that this outbreak was not related to the 2014–15 West Africa Ebola virus epidemic, but was of the same EBOV species. It began in August 2014 and was declared over in November of that year, after 42 days without any new cases. This is the 7th outbreak there, three of which occurred during the period of Zaire. The outbreak was traced to a woman living in Ikanamongo Village in the

title: Bas-Congo virus
text: the 2009 outbreak, death occurred two or three days after the onset of symptoms. The first patient in Mangala village was a 15-year-old boy attending the local school. He died two days after he became ill. A 13-year-old girl attending the same school developed symptoms a few days later and died three days thereafter. The two students were in different classes and had no evident personal contact in the weeks before the outbreak. The source of primary infection remains unknown. A male nurse working in the local health center visited by the first victims showed signs of the disease 9

title: West African Ebola virus epidemic
text: have been stopped in West Africa", but cautioned that further small outbreaks of the disease could occur in the future. The following day, Sierra Leone confirmed its first new case since September 2015. On 25 March 2014, the WHO reported an outbreak of Ebola virus disease in four southeastern districts of Guinea with a total of 86 suspected cases, including 59 deaths, and MSF assisted the Ministry of Health by establishing Ebola treatment centers in the epicenter of the outbreak. On 31 March, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) sent a five-person team to assist in the

title: 2018 Équateur province Ebola outbreak
text: were suspected of having died from EVD near the town of Bikoro in the Province of Équateur. The World Health Organization declared the outbreak after two people were confirmed as having the disease. On 17 May, the virus was confirmed to have spread to the inland port city of Mbandaka, causing the WHO to raise its assessment of the national risk level to "very high", but not yet to constitute an international public health emergency. The WHO declared the outbreak over on July 24. Subsequent to this, 2018 Kivu Democratic Republic of the Congo Ebola virus outbreak was confirmed in

title: 2017 Democratic Republic of the Congo Ebola virus outbreak
text: 83% of simulated scenarios predict no further cases in the next 30 days." According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, "Ebola ... is a rare and deadly disease caused by infection with one of the Ebola virus species. Ebola can cause disease in humans and nonhuman primates (monkeys, gorillas, and chimpanzees)." Ebola was first identified in 1976 near the Ebola River in the DRC. More than 11,300 people died in the 2013 to 2016 Ebola outbreak in West Africa. According to the WHO's "Global Health Observatory", the DRC's population in 2015 was 77,267,000. On 1 July 2017,

title: West African Ebola virus epidemic
text: continue to arise from unknown sources of infection, and to be detected only after post-mortem testing of community deaths". On 29 July, a sharp decline in cases was reported, with only a single case left by the end of the week. The number of cases eventually plateaued at 1 or 2 cases per week after the beginning of August, and no new cases occurred from 16 September until 16 October, when 2 new ones were detected—one of these in Forécariah. On 28 October, an additional 3 cases were reported in the Forécariah Prefecture by the WHO. On 6 November, a

title: 2018 Kivu Ebola outbreak
text: ten outbreaks that have occurred in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, on 9 November 319 probable and confirmed cases (not counting suspected cases) made this current outbreak the biggest ever in the DRC. 2018 Kivu Ebola outbreak The 2018 Kivu Ebola outbreak began on 1 August 2018, when it was confirmed that four cases had tested positive for Ebola virus in the eastern region of Kivu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The Kivu outbreak included Ituri Province, after the first case was confirmed on 13 August. This outbreak started just days after the 2018 Équateur province

title: 2018 Équateur province Ebola outbreak
text: this individual as the index case has not yet been confirmed. Équateur province's Provincial Health Division reported 21 cases with symptoms consistent with Ebola virus disease, of whom 17 had died, on 3 May 2018. Of these, eight cases have subsequently been shown not to have been Ebola-related. The outbreak was declared on 8 May after samples from two of five patients in Bikoro tested positive for the Zaire strain of the Ebola virus. On 10 May, the World Health Organization (WHO) stated that the Democratic Republic of the Congo had a total of 32 cases of EVD, and a