{"id":524066,"date":"2026-06-29T11:49:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T11:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/524066\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T11:49:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T11:49:12","slug":"confirmed-ebola-cases-in-congo-at-1274-including-360-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/524066\/","title":{"rendered":"Confirmed Ebola cases in Congo at 1,274, including 360 deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">As more patients recover from the world\u2019s largest recorded Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak, doctors are beginning to piece together how the rare virus behaves, offering the clearest picture yet of one of the disease\u2019s least-studied strains.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The number of recoveries reported by Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) health authorities almost doubled in a week, rising to 148 on Thursday from 80 on June 18, even as treatment centres admit dozens of patients daily.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u2060The DRC said late on \u2060Sunday that \u200cconfirmed Ebola \u200ccases in \u2060the \u2060country \u200chad reached \u200c1,274, \u200cincluding \u200c360 \u2060deaths.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Previous Bundibugyo outbreaks had lower reported fatality rates than epidemics caused by the more common Zaire and Sudan species, but doctors say it is too early to know whether the current epidemic will follow the same pattern because hundreds of patients remain hospitalised.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The uncertainty reflects how little scientists still know about the virus.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A priest conducts a blessing ceremony on June 19 for a fourth DRC child who died from Ebola at an orphanage in Bunia, Ituri Province. Children account for over 25 per cent of deaths, according to the UN. Photo: via TNS\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/09a575a0-cb6b-4a3d-85b3-7e9431f2f08d_513e22c9.jpg\" title=\"A priest conducts a blessing ceremony on June 19 for a fourth DRC child who died from Ebola at an orphanage in Bunia, Ituri Province. Children account for over 25 per cent of deaths, according to the UN. Photo: via TNS\"\/>A priest conducts a blessing ceremony on June 19 for a fourth DRC child who died from Ebola at an orphanage in Bunia, Ituri Province. Children account for over 25 per cent of deaths, according to the UN. Photo: via TNS<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Before this year, Bundibugyo had caused just two recognised outbreaks since it was identified in Uganda in 2007, with only 193 confirmed cases combined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As more patients recover from the world\u2019s largest recorded Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak, doctors are beginning to piece together&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":524067,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[4926,21058,21059,103,61,60],"class_list":["post-524066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-congo","tag-drc","tag-ebola","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524066","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=524066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/524067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}