{"id":468670,"date":"2026-05-31T04:31:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T04:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/468670\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T04:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T04:31:09","slug":"who-chief-urges-safe-burials-in-visit-to-heart-of-ebola-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/468670\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO chief urges safe burials in visit to heart of Ebola outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BUNIA, Congo \u2013 The World Health Organization chief traveled on Saturday to the Congolese province hardest hit by an Ebola outbreak, urging residents to seek treatment and practice safe burials as officials scramble to contain the fatal disease. The outbreak \u2014 the 17th in Congo and the third-largest since Ebola was discovered half a century ago \u2014 is outpacing the global response, something WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom \u200cGhebreyesus \u200cacknowledged this week before traveling to Kinshasa on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>His visit came as Brazil said on Saturday it \u200bwas investigating a suspected Ebola case in Sao Paulo state involving a man who recently visited Congo. Authorities said the patient was in isolation at a specialist hospital.<\/p>\n<p>After meeting Prime Minister Judith Suminwa Tuluka on Friday, Tedros flew on Saturday to Bunia, capital of Ituri province, \u2060where the first cases were confirmed earlier this month. At a news conference alongside Congo\u2019s health minister, Tedros said the rare Bundibugyo strain has no approved \u2060vaccines or treatments, making early palliative care \u2014 including isolation, rehydration and pain management \u2014 critical.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BUNIA, Congo \u2013 The World Health Organization chief traveled on Saturday to the Congolese province hardest hit by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468671,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[14991,29592,163,85,46,205450,16619,4663],"class_list":["post-468670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-congo","tag-ebola","tag-health","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-tedros-adhanom-ghebreyesus","tag-uganda","tag-who"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468670","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=468670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}