2021 North Kivu Ebola

2021 North Kivu Ebola

Butembo, DRC
Casualties
6 deaths (12 cases)

On 7 February 2021, the Congolese health ministry announced that a new case of Ebola near Butembo, North Kivu had been detected the previous day. The case was a 42-year-old woman who had symptoms of Ebola in Biena on 1 February 2021. A few days after, she died in a hospital in Butembo. The WHO said that more than 70 people who had contact with the woman had been tracked.^[1][2]

On 3 May 2021, the 12th EVD outbreak was declared over, resulting in 12 cases and 6 deaths.^[3][4] Heightened surveillance will continue for 90 days after the declaration, in case of resurgence.^[3]

History

Timeline of Ebola outbreaks in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire) since 1976

^V^・^T Date	Country	Major location	Outbreak information				Source
			Strain	Cases	Deaths	CFR
Aug 1976	Zaire	Yambuku	EBOV	318	280	88%	[5]
Jun 1977	Zaire	Tandala	EBOV	1	1	100%	[6][7]
May–Jul 1995	Zaire	Kikwit	EBOV	315	254	81%	[8]
Aug–Nov 2007	Democratic Republic of the Congo	Kasai-Occidental	EBOV	264	187	71%	[9]
Dec 2008–Feb 2009	Democratic Republic of the Congo	Kasai-Occidental	EBOV	32	14	45%	[10]
Jun–Nov 2012	Democratic Republic of the Congo	Orientale	BDBV	77	36	47%	[6]
Aug–Nov 2014	Democratic Republic of the Congo	Tshuapa	EBOV	66	49	74%	[11]
May–Jul 2017	Democratic Republic of the Congo	Likati	EBOV	8	4	50%	[12]
Apr–Jul 2018	Democratic Republic of the Congo	Équateur Province	EBOV	54	33	61%	[13]
Aug 2018–June 2020	Democratic Republic of the Congo	Kivu	EBOV	3,470	2,280	66%	[14]
June–Nov 2020	Democratic Republic of the Congo	Équateur Province	EBOV	130	55	42%	[15]
Feb 2021–May 2021	Democratic Republic of the Congo	North Kivu	EBOV	12	6	50%	[16]
April 2022	Democratic Republic of the Congo	Équateur Province	EBOV	5	5	100%	[17][18]
August 2022	Democratic Republic of the Congo	North Kivu	EBOV	1	1	100%	[19]

See also

• Western African Ebola virus epidemic
• Kivu Ebola epidemic
• Post-Ebola virus syndrome

References

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Further reading

• "FDA approves an Ebola vaccine, long in development, for the first time". STAT. 20 December 2019. Retrieved 22 December 2019.
• Dokubo, Emily Kainne; Wendland, Annika; Mate, Suzanne E; et al. (September 2018). "Persistence of Ebola virus after the end of widespread transmission in Liberia: an outbreak report". The Lancet Infectious Diseases. 18 (9): 1015–1024. doi:10.1016/S1473-3099(18)30417-1. PMID 30049622. S2CID 51725253.