{"id":464022,"date":"2026-05-28T07:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T07:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/464022\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T07:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T07:58:08","slug":"breakneck-ebola-epidemic-in-congo-outpaces-worlds-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/464022\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2019Breakneck\u2019 Ebola epidemic in Congo outpaces world\u2019s response"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON\/NAIROBI\/GENEVA \u2013 In an \u2060Ebola outbreak, hours matter. Yet the response to the deadly and fast-spreading epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo is weeks if not months behind \u2014 and thousands of people may be at risk.<\/p>\n<p>Interviews with global health officials and documents from a meeting led by the World Health Organization and Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) show how behind the curve authorities are in fighting the latest outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>Caused by a strain of the virus known as Bundibugyo for which there is no vaccine or treatment, the outbreak has already caused a suspected 220 deaths and 900 cases, according to \u200bthe WHO. It has spread to Uganda, where there are seven cases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON\/NAIROBI\/GENEVA \u2013 In an \u2060Ebola outbreak, hours matter. Yet the response to the deadly and fast-spreading epidemic in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":464023,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1911,14991,29592,163,85,46,4663],"class_list":["post-464022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-africa","tag-congo","tag-ebola","tag-health","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-who"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464022","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=464022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}