{"id":602069,"date":"2026-09-01T00:16:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T00:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/602069\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T00:16:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T00:16:17","slug":"congo-authorities-report-more-than-6000-confirmed-ebola-cases-and-nearly-3000-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/602069\/","title":{"rendered":"Congo authorities report more than 6,000 confirmed Ebola cases and nearly 3,000 deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"

BUNIA, Congo \u2014 Congolese authorities said Monday that the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in history<\/a> has topped 6,000 cases with 2,911 deaths.<\/p>\n

More than 1,360 people have recovered<\/a> from the virus, in what authorities said was an \u201cencouraging\u201d development.<\/p>\n

The outbreak in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo is spreading under extremely difficult conditions, fueled by insecurity, displacement, a health workers\u2019 strike and intense population movements<\/a>. The situation is particularly concerning at displacement sites, where residents already live in extremely precarious conditions.<\/p>\n

Last week, the virus spilled into two new health zones in the region.<\/p>\n

The World Health Organization has said it remains out of control and is on track to surpass the 2014-16 West Africa Ebola outbreak, the deadliest on record, which killed more than 11,000 people<\/a>, primarily in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.<\/p>\n

\"PeoplePeople dressed in protective gear lower the coffin containing the remains of 6-year-old Baudjo Baraka Jules, who died of Ebola, into a grave in Bunia in eastern Congo on Aug. 18. Dieudonne Dirole \/ AP file<\/p>\n

On Saturday, an Ebola response team was attacked on the outskirts of the town of Mambasa in Ituri province while responding to a call to secure a body. Young people armed with machetes stormed the site of the funeral, forcing the team to flee and injuring one member, a representative told The Associated Press.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe demand greater security<\/a> so we can operate in the field and do our work without endangering our lives,\u201d said Floribert Magene, a member of the response team.<\/p>\n

Bodies of those who died of Ebola can be highly contagious and lead to further spread when people prepare them for burial and gather for funerals.<\/p>\n

In response to the outbreak, Congolese authorities have mandated that the dangerous work of burying suspected victims<\/a> be managed wherever possible by authorities, which can be met by protests from families and friends.<\/p>\n

The outbreak is caused by the Bundibugyo virus, a rare type of Ebola that has no approved vaccine or treatment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BUNIA, Congo \u2014 Congolese authorities said Monday that the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in history has topped 6,000 cases…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":602070,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[163,85,46],"class_list":["post-602069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-health","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602069","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=602069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}