The Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo has spread to two new provinces, Haut-Uele and Tshopo, the country's public health institute said in a report. "Although current investigations suggest that all cases detected in these two provinces are primarily imported from Niania in Ituri (province), it is necessary and appropriate ... to consider these two provinces as an epidemic zone," the National Institute of Public Health said in its report. The outbreak of the rare Bundibugyo strain of Ebola has now affected five Congolese provinces. It has killed hundreds of people in the eastern provinces of Ituri, North Kivu and South Kivu.
