{"id":629942,"date":"2026-09-19T22:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T22:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/629942\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T22:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T22:04:09","slug":"ebola-update-for-the-period-of-may-15-to-september-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/629942\/","title":{"rendered":"Ebola update for the period of May 15 to September 17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The official DRC Ministry of Communication and Media account posted a September 17, 2026 Ebola situation report detailing the outbreak across 7 provinces (Ituri, Nord-Kivu, Sud-Kivu, Bas-U\u00e9l\u00e9, Haut-U\u00e9l\u00e9, Tshopo, Sud-Ubangi) and 62 health zones.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!EN9o!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd938d288-8d03-400b-a292-e454dcb2cb62_787x607.png\" data-component-name=\"Image2ToDOM\" class=\"image-link image2 is-viewable-img can-restack\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/d938d288-8d03-400b-a292-e454dcb2cb62_787x.jpeg\" width=\"787\" height=\"607\" data-attrs=\"{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/d938d288-8d03-400b-a292-e454dcb2cb62_787x607.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:607,&quot;width&quot;:787,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:623467,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image\/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/outbreaknewstoday.substack.com\/i\/216498995?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd938d288-8d03-400b-a292-e454dcb2cb62_787x607.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}\" alt=\"\"   fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"sizing-normal\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Key stats show 7,541 confirmed cases, 1,823 recoveries, 3,639 deaths (48.3% fatality rate), 930 patients hospitalized or isolated, and 87.2% contact tracing success.<\/p>\n<p>Positive updates include 25 new recoveries in the last 24 hours, no new geographic foci identified, and vaccination progress with 3,063 doses in Tshopo and 708 in Bas-U\u00e9l\u00e9; the public is urged to call 151 for suspected symptoms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The official DRC Ministry of Communication and Media account posted a September 17, 2026 Ebola situation report detailing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[103,61,60],"class_list":["post-629942","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\/629942","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=629942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}