Africa’s top public health body has confirmed a new Ebola outbreak in Congo’s Ituri province, the 17th since the disease first emerged in the country in 1976.

A total of 246 suspected cases and 65 deaths have already been recorded in the new outbreak, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said in a statement on Friday.

Here’s what to know about the health crisis:

Africa’s top public health body has confirmed a new Ebola outbreak in Congo’s Ituri province, the 17th since the disease first emerged in the country in 1976. AP Photo/Al-hadji Kudra Maliro

The outbreak is in a remote part of Congo

The suspected Ebola cases have mainly been recorded in Ituri’s Mongwalu and Rwampara health zones.…