{"id":808026,"date":"2026-07-18T10:31:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T10:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/808026\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T10:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T10:31:09","slug":"walking-ebola-helps-explain-why-congos-outbreak-is-so-hard-to-stop-and-how-to-treat-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/808026\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Walking Ebola\u2019 helps explain why Congo\u2019s outbreak is so hard to stop \u2014 and how to treat it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some doctors call it \u201cwalking Ebola\u201d \u2014 symptoms of the rare Bundibugyo strain appear to worsen slowly, leaving patients sick enough to spread the virus but not so unwell to stop them moving through their communities.<\/p>\n<p>The pattern emerging in the Democratic Republic of Congo resonated with virologist Corri Levine, who devoted her doctoral research to Bundibugyo years before it caused the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak on record. Studying the virus in a biocontainment laboratory at the University of Texas Medical Branch, Levine found it replicated more slowly than the Zaire strain responsible for a devastating epidemic that swept West Africa a decade ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWalking Ebola\u201d was \u201can \u2018aha\u2019 moment for me,\u201d Levine said. \u201cIf it\u2019s growing slower in the person, you might start having some symptoms, but not enough to make you feel so crummy that you can\u2019t move. It\u2019s this longer, prolonged disease course.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some doctors call it \u201cwalking Ebola\u201d \u2014 symptoms of the rare Bundibugyo strain appear to worsen slowly, leaving&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":808027,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[6074,64,63,68772,84608,137,1679,3853],"class_list":["post-808026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-africa","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-democratic-republic-of-congo","tag-ebola","tag-health","tag-medicine","tag-who"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=808026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/808027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}