The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the end of the most recent outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

• Ebola virus disease (EVD) is a viral hemorrhagic fever of humans and other primates caused by ebola viruses.
• It was first identified in 1976 in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in a village near the Ebola River, from which it takes its name.
• It was DRC’s eighth outbreak of EVD since the discovery of the virus in the country in 1976.
• It killed four of the eight people infected in the central African country.

The recent outbreak in DRC is not connected to the 2014 deadly Ebola outbreak that had worst hit Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone and killed more than 11,300 dead, highest ever since its discovery of virus. This outbreak was declared finished in 2016.