{"id":832822,"date":"2026-07-29T03:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T03:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/832822\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T03:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T03:39:08","slug":"a-day-in-the-life-of-congos-overstretched-ebola-surveillance-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/832822\/","title":{"rendered":"A day in the life of Congo\u2019s overstretched Ebola surveillance teams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BUNIA, CONGO \u2013 On a good day, there are only four cars available to ferry surveillance teams round the city of Bunia, the epicenter of an Ebola outbreak surging through the Democratic Republic of Congo.<\/p>\n<p>They were all out when Dr. Moubarack Kano came in to work earlier this month. So he set off in his own white Subaru Forester, with a colleague alongside him, piles of emergency alert forms stuffed into seat pockets and a rosary swinging from the rear-view mirror.<\/p>\n<p>The vehicle shortage was far from Kano\u2019s biggest challenge as they raced to track down infections and limit their spread across a patch with 1 million people in 23 health \u200cdistricts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BUNIA, CONGO \u2013 On a good day, there are only four cars available to ferry surveillance teams round&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":832823,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[5684,49,48,67439,67435,84,16119],"class_list":["post-832822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-africa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-congo","tag-ebola","tag-health","tag-world-health-organization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832822","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=832822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/832823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=832822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=832822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=832822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}