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The World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed on Friday that the Ebola virus killed three people in the south of the DRC and said it is investigating more cases.


Earlier this week, WHO officials said it is possible that other diseases are affecting people in the region, like Ebola, a lethal virus often terrifying.


WHO said that only the laboratories had confirmed Ebola infection in three cases.

"WHO is aware of other additional 36 suspected cases including 12 deaths associated with the outbreak. 184 Other contacts have been identified and are being followed," the WHO said in a statement.

Auguste Mopipi Mukulumanya, Health Minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo, said December 25 that the analysis of blood and faeces samples taken in the village of Kalwamba apparent in the heart of the outbreak had shown that there is an outbreak of Ebola.

The virus is highly contagious through bodily fluids and causes severe vomiting, diarrhea and frequent internal and external bleeding, was first reported in the area on November 27.


There is no cure for Ebola, which kills between 50 and 90 percent of its victims.

In 1995, a large outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo, then known as Zaire, killing 250 of 315 people infected, including health care workers who touched contaminated blood.