Ebola in the Congo

Via ProMED-mail: USA Today reports a total of nine confirmed cases of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

At least 167 people have died — though it is not clear how many of Ebola — in the affected region of Kasai Occidental over the past four months, and nearly 400 have fallen ill, according to Congolese health officials.
Christiana Salvi, a spokeswoman for the World Health Organization effort in Congo, said that the newest cases came from the same zone as the original confirmed samples.
She added that some of the 40-odd samples sent for testing have been negative for Ebola, but positive for other diseases like shigella — a diarrhea-like disease — or typhoid. Results from dozens more samples have yet to be released.