{"id":590504,"date":"2026-08-12T01:34:34","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T01:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/590504\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T01:34:34","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T01:34:34","slug":"new-transmission-from-animals-likely-caused-congo-uganda-ebola-outbreak-study-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/590504\/","title":{"rendered":"New transmission from animals likely caused Congo-Uganda Ebola outbreak, study says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"820\" height=\"562\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/GYWZMTPFGZJJRFUEGN3TYWGGTY-820x562.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-651242\" style=\"width:840px;height:auto\"  \/>Red Cross workers walk in a formation as they disinfect Rwampara general hospital before handling the body of a person who died of Ebola, as aid agencies intensify efforts to contain a new Ebola outbreak involving the Bundibugyo strain, in Rwampara outside Bunia, Ituri province, Democratic Republic of Congo, May 21, 2026. REUTERS\/Gradel Muyisa Mumbere\/File Photo<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">DAKAR, Aug 11 (Reuters)\u00a0\u2013\u00a0The ongoing Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo concerns a previously unseen variant of the rare Bundibugyo species of the virus, indicating it stemmed from a new transmission from animals to humans rather than from variants linked to earlier outbreaks, a new study said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Red Cross workers walk in a formation as they disinfect Rwampara general hospital before handling the body of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590505,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[103,61,60],"class_list":["post-590504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590504","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=590504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}