2021 North Kivu Ebola

On 7 February 2021, the Congolese health ministry announced that a new case of Ebola near Butembo, North Kivu had been detected the previous day. The case was a 42-year-old woman who had symptoms of Ebola in Biena on 1 February 2021. A few days after, she died in a hospital in Butembo. The WHO said that more than 70 people who had contact with the woman had been tracked.[1][2]

2021 North Kivu Ebola
Butembo, DRC
Casualties
6 deaths (12 cases)

On 3 May 2021, the 12th EVD outbreak was declared over, resulting in 12 cases and six deaths.[3][4] Heightened surveillance will continue for 90 days after the declaration, in case of resurgence.[3]

History
Timeline of Ebola outbreaks in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire) since 1976
V・T
Date		CountryMajor locationOutbreak informationSource
StrainCasesDeathsCFR
Aug 1976ZaireYambukuEBOV31828088%[5]
Jun 1977ZaireTandalaEBOV11100%[6][7]
May–Jul 1995ZaireKikwitEBOV31525481%[8]
Aug–Nov 2007Democratic Republic of the CongoKasai-OccidentalEBOV26418771%[9]
Dec 2008–Feb 2009Democratic Republic of the CongoKasai-OccidentalEBOV321445%[10]
Jun–Nov 2012Democratic Republic of the CongoOrientaleBDBV773647%[6]
Aug–Nov 2014Democratic Republic of the CongoTshuapaEBOV664974%[11]
May–Jul 2017Democratic Republic of the CongoLikatiEBOV8450%[12]
Apr–Jul 2018Democratic Republic of the CongoÉquateur ProvinceEBOV543361%[13]
Aug 2018–June 2020Democratic Republic of the CongoKivuEBOV3,4702,28066%[14]
June–Nov 2020Democratic Republic of the CongoÉquateur ProvinceEBOV1305542%[15]
Feb 2021–May 2021Democratic Republic of the CongoNorth KivuEBOV12650%[16]
April 2022Democratic Republic of the CongoÉquateur ProvinceEBOV55100%[17][18]

See also

References
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