Africa CDC , the continent's top public health body, on Friday confirmed a new Ebola outbreak in Congo’s remote Ituri province, with 246 suspected cases and 65 deaths recorded so far. The deaths and suspected cases have been recorded mainly in the Mongwalu and Rwampara health zones, the Africa Centres for Disease Control ​and Prevention said in a statement. “Four deaths have been reported among laboratory-confirmed cases. Suspected cases have also been reported in Bunia, pending confirmation,” the agency said. The Ebola virus is highly contagious and can be contracted through bodily fluids such as vomit, blood, or semen. The disease it causes is a rare but severe, and often fatal. The latest outbreak comes around five months after Congo’s last Ebola outbreak was declared over after 43 deaths. The new outbreak is the country’s 17th since the disease first emerged in the Congo in 1976. An Ebola outbreak from 2018 to 2020 in eastern Congo killed more than 1,000 people.…