{"id":457564,"date":"2026-05-24T11:53:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T11:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/457564\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T11:53:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T11:53:12","slug":"ebola-toll-in-dr-congo-over-200-uganda-and-10-other-african-countries-also-at-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/457564\/","title":{"rendered":"Ebola toll in DR Congo over 200, Uganda and 10 other African countries also at risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) updated the death toll from the Ebola outbreak to 204 late on Saturday, hours after the Red Cross said three volunteers had died there and Uganda confirmed three new Ebola cases.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A health ministry statement said 204 deaths had been recorded in three provinces of the vast Central African country, from 867 suspected cases.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The last World Health Organization (WHO) toll on Friday put the number of deaths at 177 from 750 suspected cases.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The WHO has declared the outbreak of the highly contagious haemorrhagic fever an international emergency.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">On Saturday, the African Union\u2019s health agency warned that more countries on the continent were at risk of being affected by the Ebola virus, in addition to the DRC and Uganda.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A motorcyclist in the DRC has his temperature taken on Saturday by a medical worker at a screening checkpoint. Photo: Reuters\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/e619a597-c2c1-4630-b71d-452087655613_649fe25c.jpg\" title=\"A motorcyclist in the DRC has his temperature taken on Saturday by a medical worker at a screening checkpoint. Photo: Reuters\"\/>A motorcyclist in the DRC has his temperature taken on Saturday by a medical worker at a screening checkpoint. Photo: Reuters<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cWe have 10 countries at risk,\u201d said Jean Kaseya, head of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, listing Angola, Burundi, the Central African Republic, the Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania and Zambia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) updated the death toll from the Ebola outbreak to 204&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":457565,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[213417,118166,40492,213418,170745,159785,1912,29592,41075,163,85,213420,46,213421,213422,1738,4913,213419],"class_list":["post-457564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-africa-centres-for-disease-control-and-prevention","tag-african-union","tag-angola","tag-bundibugyo-strain","tag-burundi","tag-central-african-republic","tag-democratic-republic-of-congo","tag-ebola","tag-ethiopia","tag-health","tag-il","tag-international-federation-of-red-cross-and-red-crescent-societies","tag-israel","tag-ituri","tag-jean-kaseya","tag-kenya","tag-kinshasa","tag-m23"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}