{"id":590718,"date":"2026-05-18T14:40:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T14:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/590718\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T14:40:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T14:40:19","slug":"who-to-give-update-on-hantavirus-and-ebola-after-outbreaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/590718\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO to give update on hantavirus and Ebola after outbreaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How past Ebola outbreaks have impacted DR Congo and other countriespublished at 15:23 BST<\/p>\n<p>15:23 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Democratic Republic of Congo is experienced in dealing with Ebola as this is now the 17th outbreak of the virus in the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ebola was first discovered in 1976 in what is now DR Congo, and is thought to have spread from bats. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The country saw the deadliest outbreak between 2018 and 2020, during which nearly 2,300 people died.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The virus gained more global attention over a decade ago when it spread in West Africa &#8211; focused on Guinea, where it started, Liberia and Sierra Leone. Between 2014 and 2016, at least 28,600 people were infected and 11,325 people died.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A small handful of cases were also seen in seven additional countries: Italy, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, Spain, the UK, and the US.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How past Ebola outbreaks have impacted DR Congo and other countriespublished at 15:23 BST 15:23 BST The Democratic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590719,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-590718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}