Health workers inside the 'red zone' of an Ebola treatment centre in Butembo in March 2019. A new outbreak of the Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has killed 15 people since the end of August, the health minister said Thursday.

A new Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo , which has already killed 15 people, will test the capacity of the global health system to mobilize a response after drastic U.S. budget cuts, health experts say.

The outbreak was confirmed on Thursday after laboratory tests found the virus in the DRC’s Kasai province. With 28 suspected cases and 15 deaths, the latest outbreak of the Zaire strain of Ebola has had a worrisome 54-per-cent fatality rate, officials said.

In previous Ebola outbreaks in Africa, the United States has play

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