Health officials say the number of cases are expected to rise. An American doctor in DRC is among the newly confirmed cases of the virus.
The US has banned anyone who has been in the DRC, Uganda, or South Sudan in the last three weeks.
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A visitor washes his hands before entering Kyeshero Hospital in Goma.Nearly 120 people have died from the outbreak of Ebola in Central Africa (Picture: Jospin Mwisha / AFP via Getty Images)
According to the European Centre of Disease Prevention and Control, the likelihood of infection for people in Europe is considered very low.
It’s understood the spread of the virus lay undetected for weeks.
Matthew M Kavanagh, direct of the Georgetown University Centre for Global Health Policy and Politics said: ‘Because early tests looked for the wrong strain of Ebola, we got false negatives and lost weeks of response time.
‘We are playing catch-up against a very dangerous pathogen’.
The Bundibugyo strain is spread through close contact with sick or dead patients’ bodily fluids, such as sweat, blood, faeces or vomit.
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