{"id":646793,"date":"2026-10-31T10:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T10:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/646793\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T10:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T10:26:09","slug":"congos-ebola-deaths-top-5000-as-fear-of-continent-wide-spread-mounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/646793\/","title":{"rendered":"Congo&#8217;s Ebola deaths top 5,000 as fear of continent-wide spread mounts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"WD7VE3XXHJGW5FUAIWDEVFEH3Q\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">BUNIA, Congo \u2014 Deaths in Congo\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/ebola-virus\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ebola outbreak<\/a> have topped 5,000 as the country grapples with the relentless spread of the disease and cases are recorded in other African countries, the latest government data on Saturday shows.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"CASKM3RHOZFBBATUJAFNTH76NI\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Data from the Congolese Ministry of Health showed that the disease has killed 5,026 people out of 10,351 infected, at a nearly 50% lethality rate. The surge is sparking concerns among experts regarding the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/ebola-congo-10000-cases-forecast-8bec4479473d61048250615db96eae55\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">authorities\u2019 ability<\/a> to contain the deadly virus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BUNIA, Congo \u2014 Deaths in Congo\u2019s Ebola outbreak have topped 5,000 as the country grapples with the relentless&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":646794,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[316993,11629,8433,3717,134,111,139,69,255],"class_list":["post-646793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-af-med-congo-ebola","tag-disease-outbreaks","tag-ebola-virus","tag-general-news","tag-health","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}