Death Toll in Congo Ebola Outbreak Rises to 80, Hundreds More Suspected Cases

African health authorities are meeting with officials in nearby countries.

Health workers walk with a boy suspected as having the Ebola virus at an Ebola treatment center in Beni, eastern Congo, on Sept. 9, 2018. Al-hadji Kudra Maliro/AP

A new outbreak of Ebola has been confirmed in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said on May 15.

According to Congo’s Health Ministry, 80 deaths and 246 suspected cases related to the outbreak had been reported as of May 15, with at least four fatalities being laboratory-confirmed cases. The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention previously reported 65 deaths.