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An Ebola vaccination campaign will start in the Congolose city of Beni on Thursday after a new case of the virus was confirmed this week, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday.<\/P>
More than 200 vaccine doses have been arrived in Beni, in the east of Democratic Republic of Congo, it said.<\/P>
The latest confirmed case has been genetically linked to a 2018-2020 outbreak in North Kivu and Ituri provinces, which claimed nearly 2,300 lives.<\/P>
Six people were killed in another flare-up from that same outbreak last year.<\/P>
A WHO spokesman told Reuters the shots were provided by the organization and that inoculations would start on Thursday.<\/P>
Congo’s dense tropical forests are a natural reservoir for the Ebola virus, which causes fever, body aches, and diarrhea, and can linger in the body of survivors only to resurface years later.<\/P>
The vast central African country has recorded 14 outbreaks since 1976. The 2018-2020 outbreak in the east was Congo’s largest and the second largest ever recorded, with nearly 3,500 total cases.<\/P>
Congo’s most recent outbreak was in northwest Equateur province. Itwas declared over in July after five deaths.<\/P>
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Source: Voice of America<\/P>
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