{"id":47024,"date":"2026-10-01T14:31:02","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T12:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=47024"},"modified":"2026-10-01T14:31:02","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T12:31:02","slug":"msf-staff-member-tests-positive-for-ebola-in-drc","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/msf-staff-member-tests-positive-for-ebola-in-drc\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;MSF staff member tests positive for Ebola in DRC&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\">A staff member at humanitarian \u200borganisation M\u00e9decins Sans Fronti\u00e8res (MSF) has tested positive for \u200cthe Ebola Bundibugyo virus disease while working on the Ebola response in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), MSF said on Thursday.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"x_ms-outlook-mobile-signature\">\n<div>&#8220;This \u200bperson is being safely evacuated under a strict \u200bmedical protocol in close coordination with the relevant \u2060health authorities in the DRC and the Netherlands, \u200bwhere the patient will be received by a designated hospital,&#8221; \u200bMSF said in a statement.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">The number of confirmed Ebola cases in DRC has risen above 8 000 for the first time in the \u200bCentral African country&#8217;s ongoing outbreak, government data showed \u200bon Monday.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>The latest situation report from the public health institute put the \u200cnumber \u2060of cases at 8 067 and deaths at 3 901.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>The outbreak, caused by the Bundibugyo species of Ebola, became the largest and deadliest in DRC&#8217;s history after surpassing the \u200b2018-2020 epidemic.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">It is \u200bsecond only \u2060to the 2014-2016 West African outbreak, which infected over 28 600 people and killed more \u200bthan 11 000 across Guinea, Liberia and Sierra \u200bLeone.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\nMSF, \u2060which is responding to the outbreak across Ituri, North Kivu, Tshopo and Haut-U\u00e9l\u00e9 provinces, said it recognised that despite \u2060providing staff \u200bwith the highest possible levels \u200bof protection, the risk of exposure can never be completely eliminated.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":44432,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-47024","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"The latest situation report from the public health institute put the \u200cnumber \u2060of cases at 8 067 and deaths at 3 901.","published_date":"","news_description":"The latest situation report from the public health institute put the \u200cnumber \u2060of cases at 8 067 and deaths at 3 901.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/47024","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\/47024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47025,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/47024\/revisions\/47025"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=47024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}