Eleven new haemorrhagic cases, one of them fatal, have been reported since Tuesday.

The World Health Organisation says the risk from the latest outbreak of Ebola in the DRC is high locally, moderate regionally and low globally.

Twenty seven haemorrhagic cases were reported in Bikord in Equateur province in April and May. 

Seventeen of these were fatal.

Congolese Health Minister Oly Ilungu says two cases of Ebola have been confirmed.

His country needs international help dealing with the outbreak.

Ebola is spread by five viruses and generally half the people contracting it, by coming into contact with bodily fluids of an infected person, die of it.

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With 21 suspicious illnesses and 17 deaths, the World Health Organization has released $1M in emergency funds.

Two of the five samples taken from the iIkoko Iponge health facility near Bikoro in Equateur Province these past five weeks have tested positive for the viral haemorrhagic fever Ebola.

There have been 17 deaths from in  the northwestern DRC.

Local authorities have limited health facilities and rely on international aid and supplies.

A group of specialists from the WHO and Medecines Sans Frontiers are moving to the area to scale response efforts.

Ebola killed four people in an outbreak in the Congo last year. 

In 2014 Ebola killed 11 000 people in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia. 

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The World Health Organisation says the epidemic in the DRC has been contained in the remote Equateur province northwest of the DRC.

The dense tropical forest 800 kilometres north of the Congolese capital Kinshasa is containing the Ebola outbreak diagnosed in the Central African giant a fortnight ago.

In the remote town of Boende, which has already been quarantined, there have 53 co nfirmed cases of Ebola and at least 185 people being closely watched having had contact with the victims.

Facing the seventh outbreak of Ebola in the DRC,  Medicines Sans Frontiers has despatched addtional personnel and set up an Ebola clinic in the affected area.

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