{"id":28145,"date":"2026-05-17T20:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T20:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/28145\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T20:30:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T20:30:00","slug":"who-declares-ebola-outbreak-in-drc-and-uganda-an-emergency-of-international-concern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/28145\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO declares Ebola outbreak in DRC and Uganda an emergency of international concern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"WHO declares Ebola outbreak in DRC and Uganda an emergency of international concern\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/68pxCYf5JeQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nWHO declares Ebola outbreak in DRC and Uganda an emergency of international concern<br \/>\n<br \/>\nA senior health official has said he is in &#8220;panic mode&#8221; after an Ebola outbreak linked to 88 suspected deaths was declared a &#8220;public health emergency of international concern&#8221; by the World Health Organisation. <\/p>\n<p>Dr Jean Kaseya, the director-general of Africa CDC, told Sky News that the fatality rate is higher with this strain &#8211; known as the Bundibugyo virus &#8211; and there is currently no approved vaccine.<\/p>\n<p>So far, 336 suspected Ebola cases have been recorded, mostly in the Democratic Republic of Congo, but with two in Uganda &#8211; and there are fears the outbreak could spread beyond the region.<\/p>\n<p>Read more: https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/im-on-panic-mode-says-health-official-as-ebola-outbreak-declared-global-public-health-emergency-in-democratic-republic-of-congo-and-uganda-13544395<\/p>\n<p>#Ebola #Healthcare #Africa #DRC #Uganda<\/p>\n<p>SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube channel for more videos: http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/skynews<br \/>\nFollow us on Twitter: https:\/\/twitter.com\/skynews<br \/>\nLike us on Facebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/skynews<br \/>\nFollow us on Instagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/skynews<br \/>\nFollow us on TikTok: https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@skynews <\/p>\n<p>For more content go to http:\/\/news.sky.com and download our apps: Apple https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/gb\/app\/sky-news\/id316391924?mt=8 Android https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.bskyb.skynews.android&#038;hl=en_GB <\/p>\n<p>Listen to our new podcast This is Why, available for free here: https:\/\/podfollow.com\/thisiswhy<\/p>\n<p>To enquire about licensing Sky News content, you can find more information here: https:\/\/news.sky.com\/info\/library-sales<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WHO declares Ebola outbreak in DRC and Uganda an emergency of international concern A senior health official has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28146,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8],"tags":[18804,33,29396,15939,29402,29290,29294,6658,5438,28651,18678,6151,29400,5387,25947,23700,76,29398,29408,29401,29406,28187,1441,29403,12990,29293,29397,8674,18671,31,2290,16214,29295,1520,296,29399,19579,26589,29405,23961,23080,23678,29404,23699,178,25281,235,29407],"class_list":["post-28145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sky-news","tag-adele-robinson","tag-africa","tag-africa-cdc","tag-angola","tag-bleeding","tag-bundibugyo","tag-bunia","tag-death","tag-deaths","tag-democratic-republic-of-congo","tag-disease","tag-dr-congo","tag-dr-jean-kaseya","tag-drc","tag-ebola","tag-epidemic","tag-europe","tag-fatal","tag-fatality-rate","tag-flu","tag-fruit-bats","tag-goma","tag-healthcare","tag-hemorrhagic-fever","tag-illness","tag-ituri","tag-kinshasha","tag-m23","tag-medical","tag-news","tag-pandemic","tag-public-health","tag-rwampara","tag-sky","tag-sky-news","tag-south-sudan","tag-tanzania","tag-tedros-ghebreyesus","tag-transmission","tag-uganda","tag-vaccine","tag-virus","tag-vomiting","tag-who","tag-world","tag-world-health-organisation","tag-world-news","tag-zoonotic"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}