4. The 2018 Ebola outbreak in DRC

Recently, an Ebola outbreak has emerged in DRC with the first cases detected on May 8, 2018 at the Bikoro zone, a remote rural region and the virus has spread to Mbandaka, an urban area which inhabits more than 1 million people. Mbandaka is about an hour's flight from Congo's capital Kinshasa, thus, there is more concern about the possibility of the virus to spread to other larger populations. As of May 21, 2018, about 46 cases of haemorrhagic fever had been recorded. Among these cases, 21 have been confirmed as Ebola infected, 21 are probable cases of the virus while 4 are only suspected to be related to the epidemic. Twenty-six deaths have already been reported [21].
