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DR Congo Ebola outbreak a NEW STRAIN, NOT SAME AS WEST AFRICAN OUTBREAK ...tell me this is not fucking mutating this fast
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[link to www.nbcnews.com]
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.
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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.
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 health official said.
The outbreak in West Africa is the Zaire strain.
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