A baby has recovered from what is now known as the world's second-deadliest Ebola outbreak.
Baby Benedicte was admitted to an Ebola treatment center in the Democratic Republic of Congo, just six days after birth.
The ministry late on Thursday tweeted a photo of the infant, swaddled and surrounded by caregivers who watched over her 24 hours a day for weeks.
Congo's health ministry has called baby Benedicte the youngest survivor of this Ebola outbreak.
Marie-Pierre Poirier, the UNICEF Regional Director for West and Central Africa, says, "The numbers are staggering, the latest we have would be one in three, over thirty percent of affected people by the Ebola crisis, are children and this number is not decreasing. Fatality rates are much higher for children than for adults."
