The World Health Organization on Thursday said 48 cases of Ebola have been confirmed in the Democratic Republic of Congo and 31 people have died. “It has been two weeks since the government of the DRC declared an Ebola outbreak …So far, 48 confirmed and probable cases have been reported, and 31 people have died,” World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters via video link from the WHO headquarters in Geneva. The outbreak, the country’s first in three years, was declared in early September. Congo’s dense tropical forests are a natural reservoir for the Ebola virus, which causes fever, body aches and diarrhoea, and can linger in the body of survivors only to resurface years later. The World Health Organization on Sunday said it had begun vaccinating frontline health workers and contacts of people infected with Ebola virus in Congo’s Kasai Province, where an outbreak has been declared.

Full report : Over 30 people have died from Ebola in Congo, says World Health Organization.