The deadly virus, Ebola is expanding far beyond West Africa. This virus has been confirmed positive in Central Africa
Two people in Gera town in the Democratic Republic of Congo were tested positive for Ebola, a government spokesman said Sunday according to CNN report. Although the local clinic confirmed the test positive yesterday but U.N agency’s lab is also conducting its own confirmation test that will also determine the strain of the virus found.
A lab and quarantine station have been set up in the town, which is about 750 miles from the capital of Kinshasa.
Congo said its test showed the strain is different from the one that has killed nearly 1,500 people in the West African nations of Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Nigeria.
Ebola first appeared in 1976 in Congo and had six previous outbreaks since then but it’s unclear whether it’s the same one in the latest outbreak.
The outbreak has forced various nations to take drastic action in protecting their country from this deadly virus by issuing travel ban to other African countries and closing borders for an indefinite period including Ivory Coast South Africa, Botswana.