{"id":547909,"date":"2026-06-22T08:13:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T08:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/547909\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T08:13:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T08:13:10","slug":"confirmed-ebola-cases-in-congo-outbreak-top-1000-with-254-deaths-authorities-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/547909\/","title":{"rendered":"Confirmed Ebola cases in Congo outbreak top 1,000 with 254 deaths, authorities say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"jxTEW Poyse uieav lqtkC HkWF HfYhe kGyAC \">Authorities say confirmed cases of the Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo have reached 1,003, including 254 deaths<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">BUNIA, Congo &#8212; Confirmed cases in the Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo have reached 1,003, including 254 deaths, officials said in a statement late Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">A total of 100 people have recovered in the outbreak concentrated in the Ituri province since it was declared on May 15, Congo\u2019s Ministry of Health said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Ebola outbreak caused by the rare Bundibugyo virus, which has no vaccines or treatment, was the worst ever in its first month. Officials admit there could be far more cases they still don\u2019t know about and that the peak of the outbreak is still ahead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Contact tracing remains a key issue for local authorities, who have only achieved a 55% coverage rate, the ministry said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Officials also are yet to identify the outbreak\u2019s patient zero and still need to trace more than 35,000 people who have come in contact with infected individuals as of last week, authorities said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Authorities say confirmed cases of the Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo have reached 1,003, including 254 deaths BUNIA,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":547910,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[78],"tags":[26540,35438,18,3334,135,19,17,790,66],"class_list":["post-547909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-disease-outbreaks","tag-ebola-virus","tag-eire","tag-general-news","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-politics","tag-world-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116792761295352291","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}