KINSHASA, DR Congo (AFP)—A new Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo that has caused scores of deaths has a “very high lethality rate” and no vaccine nor specific treatment, the country’s health minister warned Saturday.

“The Bundibugyo strain has no vaccine, no specific treatment,” Kamba told a press briefing in Kinshasa.

“This strain has a very high lethality rate which can reach 50 percent,” Samuel-Roger Kamba told a press briefing in Kinshasa.