The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as well as the global health community have marked the end of the latest Ebola outbreak in North Kivu Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

The DRC Ministry of Health (MOH) and the World Health Organization declared it over after 42 days without any new cases after the last survivor tested negative and was discharged from a treatment unit. This was DRC’s 12th Ebola outbreak, and was announced on February 7 this year. Recent Ebola outbreaks have highlighted that persistent infections in survivors cangive rise to fresh outbreaks or set off new and ongoing transmission within an outbreak that is going on… (CDC, May 3, 2021)