{"id":23739,"date":"2018-11-30T00:24:20","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T00:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=23739"},"modified":"2018-11-30T00:24:20","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T00:24:20","slug":"congo-ebola-outbreak-is-2nd-largest-2nd-deadliest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=23739","title":{"rendered":"Congo Ebola outbreak is 2nd largest, 2nd deadliest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>The current Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo &#8212; with 426 total cases, including 245 deaths &#8212; is now the second largest and second deadliest in history, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/sante.gouv.cd\/ebola_kivu_29nov\" target=\"_blank\">Thursday&#8217;s report <\/a>from the nation&#8217;s Ministry of Health. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">A 2000-01 outbreak in Uganda included 425 cases and caused 224 deaths, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.who.int\/news-room\/fact-sheets\/detail\/ebola-virus-disease\" target=\"_blank\">World Health Organization<\/a>. The deadliest outbreak occurred in West Africa in 2014, when the disease killed more than 11,000 people. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">&#8220;This is a milestone nobody wanted to hit,&#8221; WHO spokesman Tarik Jasarevic wrote in an email. On average, Ebola &#8212; which causes fever, severe headache and in some cases hemorrhaging &#8212; kills about half of those infected, but case fatality rates in individual outbreaks have varied. The latest outbreak in Congo, which began in August, has a case fatality rate of 57%. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)The current Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo &#8212; with 426 total cases, including 245 deaths &#8212; is now the second largest and second deadliest in history, according to Thursday&#8217;s report from the nation&#8217;s Ministry of Health. A 2000-01 outbreak in Uganda included 425 cases and caused 224 deaths, according to the World&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":23740,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}