{"id":823405,"date":"2026-07-24T16:25:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T16:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/823405\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T16:25:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T16:25:12","slug":"nearly-3000-confirmed-infected-with-ebola-in-congo-after-data-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/823405\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly 3,000 confirmed infected with Ebola in Congo after data review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">July 24 (Reuters) &#8211; The number of people confirmed infected with Ebola in the Democratic \u200cRepublic of Congo was heading towards 3,000 \u200con Friday after officials reviewed data in two of the \u200bworst-hit provinces and reported more than 300 new cases.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u2022 The number of confirmed Ebola cases was 2,905, including 1,269 deaths, according to the daily \u200creport from the \u2060central African country&#8217;s public health institute.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u2022 The number of confirmed deaths passed the \u20601,000 mark in figures announced late on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u2022 The World Health Organization has said the true \u200bscale of \u200bthe outbreak could \u200bbe two to four \u200ctimes larger than official data suggest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u2022 The Ebola outbreak, Congo&#8217;s 17th, was declared in mid-May but experts believe infections started circulating weeks earlier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u2022 It is caused by the rare Bundibugyo strain of \u200cthe virus, which has \u200ba fatality rate of about \u200b40%. There is \u200bno approved vaccine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u2022 Congo&#8217;s public health \u200cinstitute said the increase reported \u200bon Friday \u200bwas largely driven by the reconciliation of data from Ituri and North Kivu provinces with \u200bnational figures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(Reporting \u200cby Fiston Mahamba in Goma; Writing by \u200bAnait Miridzhanian in Dakar; Editing by Alexander \u200bWinning and Andrew Heavens)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"July 24 (Reuters) &#8211; The number of people confirmed infected with Ebola in the Democratic \u200cRepublic of Congo&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":823406,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[49,48,288040,256932,70194,77449,84,288039,113231],"class_list":["post-823405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-confirmed-deaths","tag-confirmed-ebola-cases","tag-democratic-republic-of-congo","tag-ebola-outbreak","tag-health","tag-public-health-institute","tag-the-world-health-organization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=823405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/823406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}