{"id":41573,"date":"2026-08-05T07:32:34","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T05:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=41573"},"modified":"2026-08-05T08:29:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T06:29:16","slug":"drc-hit-by-worst-ebola-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/drc-hit-by-worst-ebola-outbreak\/","title":{"rendered":"DRC hit by worst Ebola outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"x_p1\">The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is now facing the largest Ebola outbreak in its history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_p1\">The World Health Organisation is warning that the virus is spreading faster than the response on the ground.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_p1\">More than 3 600 people have been infected since the outbreak began in May, and nearly 1 600 have died.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_p1\">The latest reporting week saw the highest number of new cases and deaths so far.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_p1\">Showing on how quickly the disease is accelerating.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_p1\">&#8211;ChannelAfrica&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":34676,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-41573","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"DRC is now facing the largest Ebola outbreak","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/41573","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":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/41573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41582,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/41573\/revisions\/41582"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=41573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}