Health Minister, of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Felix Kabange, has said that 600 people who fell sick on Saturday and were suspected to have contracted the deadly Ebola virus have tested negative.
He said on Monday in Kinshasa that government and WHO were investigating a possible outbreak about 270 km northeast of the capital.
Kabange added that some hunters developed Ebola-like symptoms after eating sick antelope, with symptoms including diarrhoea, vomiting and bloody urine which resulted in the death of four of the hunters.
“All of the samples are negative. There is no Ebola epidemic,” he said.
Congo has had more outbreaks of the disease than any other country.“Since December 2013, the virus has killed more than 11,200 people in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea in the worst Ebola epidemic on record,” he said.
