Fatal Ebola case reported in latest DRC outbreakOne more Ebola case has been confirmed in an outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo's (DRCs) Equateur province, raising the total to 34, according to a statement from the country's multisectoral Ebola technical committee (CMRE).The patient is from Mbandaka, the provincial capital, and apparently died from his or her infection.
The death raises the outbreak total to 14. A small but steady stream of cases continues to be reported in the outbreak, the DRC's 11th, which was first detected in early June.In another Ebola development, the European Commission yesterday approved Johnson & Johnson's two-dose Ebola vaccine known as Ad26.ZEBOV/MVA-BN-Filo.