The flurry of new cases include 3 classified as probable involving people buried before samples were obtained.
In new developments, an attack in Butembo injured burial team members, and a rights group called for the International Criminal Court to expand its probe into Beni attacks as outbreak cases reach 165.
Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) said today it was part of an international multisite study evaluating ZMapp, an experimental Ebola treatment. ZMapp contains three antibodies and is being used in the current outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)
Both newly reported patients belonged to families that refused Ebola vaccination, and one of them died.
The outbreak grows to 159 cases, 127 of them confirmed, and 104 deaths.
The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) yesterday announced that it has awarded a contract worth as much as $19 million to Oxford University and Janssen Vaccines to advance the development and manufacture of a vaccine against MERS-CoV and do preclinical studies of new vaccines against Lassa and Nipah viruses.
There are now 155 cases (124 confirmed, 31 probable), including 102 deaths, in the outbreak.
Also, officials report a new case in Beni.
The DRC reports 150 confirmed and suspected cases, with 9 cases under investigation.
Cases have now reached 149, including 100 fatalities.
