{"id":306459,"date":"2026-05-24T00:18:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T00:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/306459\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T00:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T00:18:10","slug":"who-confirms-ebola-outbreak-in-central-africa-dallas-experts-say-city-is-prepared-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/306459\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO confirms Ebola outbreak in Central Africa; Dallas experts say city is prepared"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The World Health Organization has declared an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda, with most cases reported in Congo. A North Texas infectious\u2011disease expert says that because of Dallas\u2019 experience during the 2014 Ebola cases, local hospitals and medical staff are well equipped and knowledgeable about how to respond if a case were to appear here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The World Health Organization has declared an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda, with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306460,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,33086,111020,108653,104375],"class_list":["post-306459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-democratic-republic-of-congo","tag-ebola-cases","tag-ebola-outbreak","tag-world-health-organization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}