{"id":853948,"date":"2026-08-11T08:34:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T08:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/853948\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T08:34:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T08:34:12","slug":"congo-says-2000-people-have-died-in-its-ebola-outbreak-the-fastest-growing-on-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/853948\/","title":{"rendered":"Congo says 2,000 people have died in its Ebola outbreak, the fastest growing on record"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Health workers in protective gear wave inside an Ebola treatment centre in Bunia, Congo, Monday, Aug. 10, 2026. (AP Photo\/Dieudonne Dirole)<\/p>\n

By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\tAug 11, 2026 | 1:22 AM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n

BUNIA, Congo (AP) \u2014 At least 2,000 people have died among the confirmed cases in Congo\u2019s Ebola outbreak<\/a> that is the fastest growing on record<\/a>, according to the latest government data, as health authorities struggle to get help quickly to remote localities due to rebel conflict, bad roads and work stoppages over payment issues.<\/p>\n

Data published overnight into Tuesday showed the outbreak has recorded a total of 4,381 confirmed cases, including 2,011 deaths. A total of 704 patients are in admission and isolation.<\/p>\n

The grim toll comes nearly three months since the outbreak was declared on May 15. While it took about nine weeks for the outbreak to record 1,000 deaths, it\u2019s taken just around three weeks to record the additional 1,000 deaths, showing how fast the health crisis is moving beyond the control of responders.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s already the second-largest outbreak in history<\/a>, only behind the 2014-2016 West Africa outbreak that recorded more than 28,000 cases including over 11,000 deaths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Health workers in protective gear wave inside an Ebola treatment centre in Bunia, Congo, Monday, Aug. 10, 2026.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":853949,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[49,48,84],"class_list":["post-853948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853948","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=853948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/853949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=853948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=853948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}