{"id":35306,"date":"2026-05-25T07:28:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T05:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=35306"},"modified":"2026-05-25T07:28:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T05:28:12","slug":"uganda-confirms-three-new-ebola-cases","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/uganda-confirms-three-new-ebola-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda confirms three new Ebola cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Uganda has confirmed three new Ebola cases, bringing the country&#8217;s total caseload to five.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">This as authorities ramp up surveillance and intensify regional coordination efforts to contain the outbreak.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">The new cases include two people linked to the country&#8217;s first patient, and an imported case from neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">The World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared the outbreak of the rare Bundibugyo strain a public health emergency of international concern and said the risk of a national epidemic in the DRC is \u201cvery high\u201d.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Nearly 750 suspected cases and\u00a0177 suspected deaths have been recorded in Uganda\u2019s neighbour, the centre of the outbreak.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">WHO has said that late detection, the absence of a vaccine or virus-specific therapeutics, widespread armed violence and high mobility among the population make DRC especially vulnerable.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">&#8211;Channel Africa&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":34548,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-35306","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"New Ebola cases","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/35306","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\/35306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35307,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/35306\/revisions\/35307"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=35306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}