The 12 Ebola cases were reported in the Boyenge health area, in DRC’s Equateur province. The eight deaths occurred between January 10 and 22, a World Health Organisation (WHO) official told STAT.

The 2014-16 Ebola outbreak in West Africa killed more than 11,000 people, the disease’s largest death toll. Ebola was discovered in 1976 in two simultaneous outbreaks in South Sudan and Congo ...