No vaccine for latest Ebola outbreak, DRC warns as as toll hits 80

A new Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo that has caused scores of deaths has a “very high lethality rate” and no vaccine nor specific treatment, the country’s health minister warned Saturday.
“The Bundibugyo strain has no vaccine, no specific treatment,” Kamba told a press briefing in Kinshasa.
“This strain has a very high lethality rate which can reach 50 percent,” Samuel-Roger Kamba told a press briefing in Kinshasa.
Earlier Saturday, ministry officials said the death toll had already reached 80, up from 65 initially reported the previous day.
The strain has also claimed one life in neighbouring Uganda, officials said Saturday, that of a DRC national.
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