{"id":652183,"date":"2026-10-20T15:06:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T15:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/652183\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T15:06:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T15:06:19","slug":"ebola-outbreak-update-as-of-october-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/652183\/","title":{"rendered":"Ebola outbreak update as of October 18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and as of October 18, 97 new confirmed cases of Ebola virus disease (EVD) have been reported across three provinces: North Kivu (48 cases), Ituri (42 cases), and Haut-U\u00e9l\u00e9 (7 cases).<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"image-link image2 is-viewable-img can-restack\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!yytc!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb9d6e11e-0418-446e-9cdf-fb81e0109a1d_1408x768.jpeg\" data-component-name=\"Image2ToDOM\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/b9d6e11e-0418-446e-9cdf-fb81e0109a1d_1408.jpeg\" width=\"1408\" height=\"768\" data-attrs=\"{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/b9d6e11e-0418-446e-9cdf-fb81e0109a1d_1408x768.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:768,&quot;width&quot;:1408,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:989606,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image\/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/outbreaknewstoday.substack.com\/i\/221318132?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb9d6e11e-0418-446e-9cdf-fb81e0109a1d_1408x768.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}\" class=\"sizing-normal\" alt=\"\"   fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Among these, 30 community deaths were recorded. Additionally, 11 confirmed deaths were registered in Ebola Treatment Centers (ETCs)\u20146 in Ituri, 4 in North Kivu, and 1 in Haut-U\u00e9l\u00e9\u2014bringing the total number of confirmed deaths reported during this period to 41.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kPHquloFwpk&amp;t=2189s\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Emerging Infectious Diseases and Global Health Security<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, 20 patients (12 in Ituri, 7 in North Kivu, and 1 in Tshopo) have been declared recovered, following two consecutive negative EVD test results.<\/p>\n<p>Since the beginning of the outbreak, the DRC has recorded a cumulative total of 9,552 confirmed cases and 4,602 deaths, representing a case fatality rate of 48.2%. Ituri remains the epicenter of the outbreak, accounting for 72.9% of all cumulative confirmed cases and 43.3% of the new confirmed cases reported over the last 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>To date, 66 out of 178 health zones (37.1%), spread across eight provinces, have been affected since the start of the outbreak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and as of October 18, 97 new confirmed cases&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":652184,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[163,85,46],"class_list":["post-652183","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\/652183","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=652183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/652184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}