{"id":42800,"date":"2026-08-17T08:15:28","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T06:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=42800"},"modified":"2026-08-17T08:15:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T06:15:28","slug":"ebola-outbreak-in-drc-becomes-deadliest-in-countrys-history","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/ebola-outbreak-in-drc-becomes-deadliest-in-countrys-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Ebola outbreak in DRC becomes deadliest in country&#8217;s history"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has killed 2 325 people, government data showed on Sunday, surpassing the toll from the 2018-2020 outbreak to become the deadliest in the country&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">DRC&#8217;s public health \u200binstitute said in its latest report that confirmed cases had risen to 4 945, including 101 new \u200ccases detected in the previous 24 hours.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The outbreak, DRC&#8217;s 17th, was already the biggest in the country&#8217;s history in terms of number of cases, a milestone reached in late July.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The latest government data shows that the total number of deaths has surpassed the 2 299 deaths recorded \u200bin DRC&#8217;s 2018 to<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">2020 outbreak, which was previously the country&#8217;s worst on record.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">There are now 4 945 confirmed cases,\u00a0\u200bthe data showed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Three months after it was formally announced, the outbreak is now dwarfed only by \u2060West Africa&#8217;s 2014 to 2016 Ebola outbreak in which 28 616 cases and 11 310 deaths were recorded across Guinea, Liberia and Sierra \u200bLeone, according to the World Health Organisation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":34676,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-42800","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Ebola outbreak in DRC has killed 2 325 people","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/42800","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\/42800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42801,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/42800\/revisions\/42801"}],"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=42800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=42800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}