The outbreak remains focused in the country’s eastern Ituri province, where 264 of the cases have been recorded, the ministry of health said.

The World Health Organization said Wednesday that aid workers are struggling to respond to the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

By Rhea Rose Abraham May 31 (Reuters) - Four nurses who were being treated for Ebola caused by the Bundibugyo strain of the virus have been discharged from a hospital in Bunia in the Democratic Republic of Congo after recovering from the disease,

Bunia, Democratic Republic of the Congo— Four nurses who were being treated for Ebola disease caused by Bundibugyo virus have been discharged from a hospital in Bunia, the capital of Ituri, after recovering from the disease.

The head of the World Health Organization says Ebola has killed at least 7 people in Congo, but the U.N. agency says it knows the epidemic "is much larger."

The head of the World Health Organization on Wednesday called for a ceasefire in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in order to contain ​an Ebola outbreak, saying that ongoing fighting was driving mass displacement and spreading the disease in overcrowded camps.

The epicenter of the Ebola outbreak is in Mongbwalu, a poor gold-mining town of 130,000 people, in Ituri province, in eastern Congo.

On the 17th of May the World Health Organisation declared a new outbreak of Ebolavirus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo as an International Emergency. Ebola virus is an extremely nasty viral disease with a high death toll.