Aug. 10 (UPI) -- The strain of Ebola virus in Democratic Republic of Congo's latest outbreak has killed at least 37 people in its first week, the country's health ministry reported on Thursday.
It is the 10th outbreak since 1976 for the central African country, and was discovered on Aug. 1 in North Kivu province, hours after the World Health Organization declared another outbreak, in Equateur province, over. The newer outbreak has no connection to the prior one, but involves the deadlier Zaire strain of the virus. A total of 44 cases of hemorrhagic fever, the Ebola virus' foremost symptom, have been reported in North Kivu. Seventeen are confirmed and 27 are probable, and an additional 54 suspected cases are under investigation, the health ministry said.