India, Oct. 14 -- The latest figures from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) show that the Ebola outbreak has reached 9,066 cases and 4,381 deaths.
The West African outbreak was caused by the Zaire strain of the virus, the most common type of Ebola. The current outbreak is caused by the Bundibugyo strain, for which there are no approved treatments or vaccines. The outbreak has a case fatality rate of 48.2%, meaning nearly half of the reported cases have resulted in death.
It is the second-largest Ebola outbreak in history, after the 2014-2016 outbreak in West Africa, which killed more than 11,000 people across Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
Last week, Kenya reported its first imported case of Ebola. A Kenyan national living in the...