{"id":28155,"date":"2026-05-17T21:29:39","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T21:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/28155\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T21:29:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T21:29:39","slug":"deadly-ebola-virus-outbreak-is-a-health-emergency-of-international-concern-says-who-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/28155\/","title":{"rendered":"Deadly Ebola virus outbreak is \u201ca health emergency of international concern\u201d says WHO | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"Deadly Ebola virus outbreak is \u201ca health emergency of international concern\u201d says WHO | BBC News\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0MHkepHN4uM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nDeadly Ebola virus outbreak is \u201ca health emergency of international concern\u201d says WHO | BBC News<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe World Health Organization has declared an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo a public health emergency of international concern.<\/p>\n<p>The outbreak in DR Congo&#8217;s eastern Ituri province has seen around 246 suspected cases and 80 deaths reported, does not meet the criteria of a pandemic emergency.<\/p>\n<p>But it warned it could potentially be &#8220;a much larger outbreak&#8221; than what is currently being detected and reported, with significant risk of local and regional spread.<\/p>\n<p>The current strain of Ebola is caused by the Bundibugyo virus, the health agency said, for which there are no approved drugs or vaccines.<\/p>\n<p>Early symptoms include fever, muscle pain, fatigue, headache and sore throat, and are followed by vomiting, diarrhoea, a rash and bleeding.<\/p>\n<p>The WHO said there are now eight laboratory-confirmed cases of the virus, with other suspected cases and deaths across three health zones including Bunia the capital of Ituri province, and the gold-mining towns of Mongwalu and Rwampara.<\/p>\n<p>One case of the virus has been confirmed in the capital Kinshasa, believed to be in a patient returning from Ituri. The WHO said that the virus has spread beyond DR Congo, with two confirmed cases reported in neighbouring Uganda.  Ugandan officials said a 59-year-old man who died on Thursday had tested positive.<\/p>\n<p>Reeta Chakrabarti presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Joe Inwood and James Gallagher.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our channel here: https:\/\/bbc.in\/bbcnews<\/p>\n<p>For the latest news download the BBC News app or visit BBC.com\/news<\/p>\n<p>#BBCNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Deadly Ebola virus outbreak is \u201ca health emergency of international concern\u201d says WHO | BBC News The World&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28156,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[6],"tags":[33,29416,29428,176,234,29402,236,29290,29415,20974,8147,2288,5358,220,193,7295,5438,29423,1436,5387,3660,25947,14967,76,29398,29419,20459,29417,227,28187,29425,29420,1186,23724,1243,6975,29427,29426,31,21044,3485,29418,2290,29429,29424,218,18680,29421,29413,29414,24684,25630,219,29422,1087,12792,23961,2130,197,23080,15672,23678,29404,24009,8042,178,235],"class_list":["post-28155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bbc-news","tag-africa","tag-agency","tag-bacteria","tag-bbc","tag-bbc-news","tag-bleeding","tag-breaking-news","tag-bundibugyo","tag-cases","tag-concern","tag-congo","tag-covid","tag-crisis","tag-danger","tag-dead","tag-deadly","tag-deaths","tag-diarrhoea","tag-doctors","tag-drc","tag-drugs","tag-ebola","tag-emergency","tag-europe","tag-fatal","tag-fatigue","tag-fear","tag-fever","tag-global","tag-goma","tag-haemorrhage","tag-headache","tag-health","tag-ill","tag-international","tag-kinshasa","tag-lab","tag-lethal","tag-news","tag-organisation","tag-outbreak","tag-pain","tag-pandemic","tag-plague","tag-rash","tag-risk","tag-sick","tag-sore","tag-spread","tag-spreading","tag-strain","tag-symptoms","tag-threat","tag-throat","tag-travel","tag-treatment","tag-uganda","tag-un","tag-us","tag-vaccine","tag-vaccines","tag-virus","tag-vomiting","tag-warn","tag-warning","tag-world","tag-world-news"],"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\/28155","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=28155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}