<span style="color: #222222;">An outbreak of Ebola in eastern DR Congo has killed 67 people this month, authorities said today, as they roll out a battery of new drugs to tackle the virus.&nbsp; </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">A total of 105 cases have been reported since the flare-up of Ebola began on August 1 in Mangina in North Kivu province, according to the country's health ministry, out of which 77 have been confirmed by laboratory tests. It said 11 people have recovered from the virus and 67 had died.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Health minister Oly Ilunga Kalenga travelled to Mangina and saw two patients being discharged after they were treated with a new prototype treatment called mAb114.&nbsp;</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">These two people are among the first 10 patients to have received the therapeutic molecule mAb114, the ministry said. Developed in the United States, the prototype drug is the first therapeutic drug to be used in an active Ebola epidemic in the DRC.</span><br />
News On AIR | August 26, 2018 7:06 AM
Congo Ebola death toll rises to 67; prototype drug rolled out