{"id":35658,"date":"2026-05-28T07:29:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T05:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=35658"},"modified":"2026-05-28T07:29:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T05:29:07","slug":"us-tightens-ebola-prevention-measures","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/us-tightens-ebola-prevention-measures\/","title":{"rendered":"US tightens Ebola prevention measures"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"background-color: var(--global--color-background); color: var(--global--color-primary); font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">The United States (US) says it is taking steps to prevent Ebola from entering the country from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"x_mail-editor-reference-message-container\" class=\"x_ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message\">\n<div id=\"x_mail-editor-reference-message-container\">\n<div id=\"x_ms-outlook-mobile-signature\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p class=\"x_p1\">The outbreak has killed more than 200 people and infected hundreds more in DRC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_p1\">The World Health Organisation has declared the outbreak a public health emergency of international concern.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_p1\">The US President Donald Trump administration says the aim is to contain the virus in the outbreak region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_p1\">US says this is marking a shift from the 2014 response, when patients were treated in the US.<\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">&#8211;Channel Africa&#8211;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":35440,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-35658","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"US taking steps to prevent Ebola from entering its country","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/35658","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\/35658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35659,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/35658\/revisions\/35659"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=35658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}