BENI, CONGO — The latest Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is expected to last until mid-2019.<br /><br />The outbreak in the country's North Kivu Province has already killed more than 200 people, reports CNBC.<br /><br />Ebola commonly affects humans and nonhuman primates, and is caused by an infection with a group of viruses within the genus Ebolavirus, according to the CDC.<br /><br />The disease spread extensively in the town of Beni in North Kivu Province due to the dense local population, but also because of "tradi-modern" health centers, which patients tend to visit even though they aren't regulated.<br /><br />These health centers reportedly didn't have running water for handwashing, and patients would reuse needles to inject medicine.<br /><br />The WHO told reporters it will be "at least another six months" before they can declare the Ebola outbreak over, according to NBC News.<br /><br />This is the tenth Ebola virus epidemic the Democratic Republic of Congo has faced since its first epidemic back in 1976.
