An outbreak of the Ebola virus has been confirmed in the north of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
Tests on two people confirmed the existence of the virus in Equateur province, after 13 people died of the Haemorrhagic fever.
Health officials have set up a 200km-wide quarantine zone to help prevent the spread of the virus.
The strain of Ebola affecting the DRC is reported to be different from that which has caused the deaths of 1,427 people in west Africa in recent months, and appears to be an independent outbreak.
Ebola was first discovered in the DRC in 1976, after an outbreak in a region alongside the Ebola river.
