The
Democratic Republic of Congo on Saturday, November 15, 2014 declared
itself Ebola-free, after a three-month outbreak of the virus which
had claimed at least 49 lives.
The
outbreak, which began in August, 2014 involved a different strain of
Ebola from the one that has claimed more than 5,100 lives in west
Africa.
DRC
Health Minister, Felix Kabange Numbi has said that the end of the
epidemic does not mean the country is completely out of danger.“Like every other nation, the DRC remains threatened by the possible import of the Ebola virus disease raging in west Africa.”
The
all-clear in the DR Congo came 42 days after the last recorded case
of the virus, which has a 21-day incubation period.
The
disease takes its name from the DRC’s Ebola River.
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