{"id":48719,"date":"2026-10-22T07:36:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T05:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=48719"},"modified":"2026-10-22T07:36:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T05:36:18","slug":"africa-cdc-supports-nigeria-after-ebola-case","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/africa-cdc-supports-nigeria-after-ebola-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa CDC supports Nigeria after Ebola case"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mO63H\">\n<div class=\"QuE2O lAKmW\">\n<div class=\"lT19A\" data-tabster=\"{&quot;mover&quot;:{&quot;cyclic&quot;:true,&quot;direction&quot;:2,&quot;memorizeCurrent&quot;:false}}\">\n<div class=\"fui-Overflow ___xkhqv90 fyfkpbf f10570jf fly5x3f f22iagw f138vucn f15pvhnt fjamq6b\">\n<div class=\"fui-Toolbar ___ub4xnv0 f22iagw f122n59 f1mk8lai f6eco77 fqerorx\" role=\"toolbar\" data-tabster=\"{&quot;mover&quot;:{&quot;cyclic&quot;:true,&quot;direction&quot;:0,&quot;memorizeCurrent&quot;:true}}\">The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, known as Africa CDC, says it is supporting Nigeria following confirmation of the country&#8217;s first Ebola case. caused by the Bundibugyo strain.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-test-id=\"mailMessageBodyContainer\">\n<div class=\"baxr8 customScrollBar GNqVo allowTextSelection\">\n<div id=\"UniqueMessageBody_14\" class=\"OuGoX BIZfh\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"document\" aria-label=\"Message body\" aria-live=\"polite\" aria-atomic=\"false\">\n<div class=\"rps_8991\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The agency says its team arrived in the West African country on Wednesday to assist fight the outbreak.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The centre has delivered 500 test kits to help address the situation in the country.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It is also helping to strengthen disease surveillance and the response to the outbreak.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;ChannelAfrica&#8211;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":48335,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-48719","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Ebola case in Nigeria","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/48719","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\/48719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48721,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/48719\/revisions\/48721"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=48719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}