{"id":511076,"date":"2026-06-21T12:45:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T12:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/511076\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T12:45:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T12:45:19","slug":"second-person-suspected-of-contracting-ebola-put-in-isolation-israels-health-ministry-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/511076\/","title":{"rendered":"Second Person Suspected of Contracting Ebola Put in Isolation, Israel’s Health Ministry Says"},"content":{"rendered":"

A man who recently entered Israel from the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been hospitalized in isolation with suspected Ebola, the country’s Health Ministry said Sunday, marking the second suspected case reported in recent days. Authorities said test results are expected in the coming days and stressed that no confirmed Ebola cases have been identified in the country.<\/p>\n

According to the ministry’s statement, the man sought medical care after developing symptoms including fever, headache and diarrhea. Test results are expected in the coming days.<\/p>\n

On Friday<\/a>, the ministry said that another person who had returned from the Democratic Republic of the Congo the previous day had been transferred to isolation at Rambam Health Care Campus in Haifa after also being suspected of Ebola infection.<\/p>\n

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Medical teams during a drill at Sheba Medical Center in which they simulated a response to an Ebola outbreak. Credit: Kobi Gideon\/GPO<\/p>\n

Medical teams during a drill at Sheba Medical Center in which they simulated a response to an Ebola outbreak. Credit: Kobi Gideon\/GPO<\/p>\n

“He is being treated in isolation in accordance with professional protocols and the preparedness measures that have been put in place, while an epidemiological investigation is being conducted to identify contacts,” the ministry said.<\/p>\n

According to the ministry, it is conducting an epidemiological investigation to identify relevant contacts and examine possible links between the two cases. Once completed, it said, proactive outreach will be carried out to individuals deemed relevant.<\/p>\n

The ministry noted that Ebola is not airborne, and that infection occurs through direct contact with a symptomatic patient or with blood, bodily fluids or other secretions.<\/p>\n

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More than 200 people have died in an outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda, according to data from the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention. <\/p>\n

The agency also reported 894 confirmed cases, while approximately 35,000 additional people are considered potential contacts. The outbreak involves the rare Bundibugyo strain of Ebola, for which there is currently no vaccine or specific treatment<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man who recently entered Israel from the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been hospitalized in isolation…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":511077,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[33970,255,21059,103,61,60],"class_list":["post-511076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-health-body","tag-africa","tag-ebola","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/511077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}