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This may not be spread from West Africa but may include a new hybrid strain….
-” one of the two cases that tested positive was for the Sudanese strain of the disease, while the other was a mixture between the Sudanese and the Zaire strain — the most lethal variety. The outbreak in West Africa that has killed at least 1,427 people in West Africa since March is the Zaire strain.”
http://af.reuters.com/article/drcNews/idAFL5N0QU14820140824
-”the confirmation marked the seventh outbreak of Ebola in DR Congo, where the virus was first identified in 1976 near the Ebola River.The two new cases had “no link to [the epidemic] raging in West Africa,” Kabange said, adding that further tests were under way”.
http://www.france24.com/en/20140824-dr-congo-confirms-first-cases-ebola/
DR Congo Ebola outbreak a NEW STRAIN, NOT SAME AS WEST AFRICAN OUTBREAK
He said 11 people were sick and in isolation and that 80 contacts were being traced. He said the infections were of a different strain than those in the outbreak in West Africa that has killed more than 1,400 people.
Two Ebola deaths have been confirmed in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the health minister of the Central African country said, though local officials believe the cases are unrelated to the outbreak in West Africa that has killed more than 1,400 people..
Felix Kabange Numbi said on Sunday that two of eight samples from the northwest Equateur province came back positive for the deadly disease.
Numbi said Congolese officials believe Ebola had killed 13 people in the region, including five health workers.
He said 11 people were sick and in isolation and that 80 contacts were being traced, the Associated Press reported.
“I declare an Ebola epidemic in the region of Djera, in the territory of Boende in the province of Equateur,” Numbi said.
Different strains
However, Numbi said the infections were of a different strain than those in the outbreak in West Africa that has killed more than 1,400 people since March.