{"id":22907,"date":"2026-01-26T13:51:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T11:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/ethiopia-declares-end-of-marburg-outbreak-that-killed-nine\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:33:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:33:49","slug":"ethiopia-declares-end-of-marburg-outbreak-that-killed-nine","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/ethiopia-declares-end-of-marburg-outbreak-that-killed-nine\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia declares end of Marburg outbreak that killed nine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Ethiopia has declared the end of an outbreak of Marburg virus, the World Health Organisation\u00a0 (WHO) said on Monday, after the disease killed at least nine people.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Horn of Africa country announced on November 14 the outbreak of the highly infectious disease similar to Ebola.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Ethiopia has officially declared the end of its first-ever Marburg virus disease outbreak following enhanced surveillance with no new confirmed cases,&#8221; WHO said on X.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Marburg often causes severe headaches and leads to haemorrhaging. Previous outbreaks in Africa have resulted in fatality rates as high as 80% or more of cases, typically within eight to nine days of the onset of symptoms.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":16186,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-22907","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Marburg often causes severe headaches and leads to haemorrhaging.","published_date":null,"news_description":"Marburg often causes severe headaches and leads to haemorrhaging.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/22907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/22907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26048,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/22907\/revisions\/26048"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=22907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}