Three people have died of the fever.
Since 22 April, nine suspected cases including 3 deaths have been reported.
DRC's Minister of Health, Oly Ilunga, confirmed the outbreak in a television address. Although he warned that the outbreak was a "national health emergency with worldwide significance", he urged citizens not to panic. Stock Photo: MAKUA, CONGO, AFRICA - SEPTEMBER 27: A sign warns visitors that area is an Ebola-infected.
It said the health zone at Likati some 1,300 km from Kinshasa was very hard to access but stressed it was crucial to pinpoint who had had contact with those affected in order to nip the latest outbreak in the bud. The affected region is about 1,300 kilometers (808 miles) from the Country's capital, Kinshasa.
The WHO described the outbreak as "a public health crisis of global importance". But they were eventually reassured by persistent campaigning by health workers, local chiefs and religious leaders.
"The DRC is a big country and the zone affected is quite hard to access, but it is right on the border with Central African Republic", Kabambi explained. From that point on, the Ebola then spreads from humans other humans through direct contacts with an individual's infected blood, secretions, organs or other bodily fluids including contaminated clothing. "We are engaging with village heads and community leaders so we can all work together and stop the virus from spreading".
The latest Ebola outbreak is Congo's eighth, the most of any country.
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According to reports, nine people in a very remote part of the country recently fell ill with a hemorrhagic fever. "It's hard to dream up a rationale for not using the vaccine as quickly as possible".
Ebola is a highly contagious virus with a 50 percent fatality rate, according to the WHO.
The vaccine is the first to prevent infection from one of the most lethal known pathogens, and the findings add weight to early trial results published in 2016. The virus was first detected in the country's tropical forests in 1976, and was named after the river Ebola.
It subsequently spread across Liberia, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, the United States and Mali.
World Health Organization declared Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone - the three countries that had been most effected by the epidemic - to be free of Ebola in 2016.
But since that epidemic, the world has also gained a new weapon against the disease, holstered in anticipation of another outbreak: a new vaccine called rVSV-ZEBOV. Any travel restrictions that are still in place to the three countries should also be lifted, it said.
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