{"id":49602,"date":"2026-10-31T09:15:36","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T07:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=49602"},"modified":"2026-10-31T09:15:36","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T07:15:36","slug":"drc-ebola-outbreak-kills-more-than-5-000","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/drc-ebola-outbreak-kills-more-than-5-000\/","title":{"rendered":"DRC Ebola outbreak kills more than 5 000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The death toll from the Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has surpassed 5 000, government \u200cdata showed on Friday, as authorities had yet to find a way to control the country&#8217;s deadliest Ebola epidemic on record.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There are no approved treatments or vaccines to combat \u2060the rare Bundibugyo species, which is behind the outbreak in the Central African country.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It has infected more than 10 000 people since it was declared in May.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Delayed detection, conflict and strained health services have helped the virus spread more rapidly than in previous outbreaks.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Eight of DRC&#8217;s 26 provinces have \u200cbeen \u2060affected, with many deaths occurring outside treatment centres.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s outbreak is the world&#8217;s second-largest ever, behind only the 2014-2016 one that infected over 28 600 people and \u2060killed more than 11 000 across Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Last week Nigeria became the fourth African country to report \u2060an Ebola case, extending the outbreak&#8217;s geographic spread to West Africa. East African countries Kenya and \u2060Uganda have also reported cases.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":49603,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-49602","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"The death toll from the Ebola outbreak in DRC has surpassed 5 000","published_date":"2026-10-31 08:10:56","news_description":"The death toll from the Ebola outbreak in DRC has surpassed 5 000","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/49602","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\/49602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49605,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/49602\/revisions\/49605"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=49602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}