{"id":18654,"date":"2020-06-12T14:56:53","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T21:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/?p=18654"},"modified":"2020-06-12T14:25:48","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T21:25:48","slug":"congo-now-faces-2nd-ebola-outbreak-in-northern-province","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/congo-now-faces-2nd-ebola-outbreak-in-northern-province\/","title":{"rendered":"Congo Now Faces 2nd Ebola Outbreak in Northern Province"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18436\" src=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/pale_horse_blog-300x100-300x100-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-18655\" src=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Ebola-workers-300x250.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Ebola-workers-300x250.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Ebola-workers.jpeg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Newsmax &#8211; June 2, 2020<\/p>\n<p>Health officials have confirmed a second Ebola outbreak in Congo, the head of the World Health Organization said Monday, adding yet another health crisis for a country already battling COVID-19 and the world&#8217;s largest measles outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>Congo also has yet to declare an official end to Ebola in its troubled east, where at least 2,243 people have died since an epidemic began there in August 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Now Congolese health authorities have identified six cases in the north near Mbandaka in Equateur province, including four fatalities, WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus tweeted Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe country is also in final phase of battling Ebola in eastern DRC, COVID19 &amp; the world\u2019s largest measles outbreak,\u201d he tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>This marks the second time Ebola has hit Equateur province in as many years: A 2018 outbreak there killed 33 people before the disease was brought under control in a matter of months.<\/p>\n<p>The last known patient in Congo&#8217;s eastern outbreak was released in mid-May but the country now must go about another month without any new cases before an official end to the outbreak can be declared.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/world\/globaltalk\/congo-ebola\/2020\/06\/01\/id\/969953\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.newsmax.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newsmax &#8211; June 2, 2020 Health officials have confirmed a second Ebola outbreak in Congo, the head of the World Health Organization said Monday, adding yet another health crisis for a country already battling COVID-19 and the world&#8217;s largest measles outbreak. Congo also has yet to declare an official end to Ebola in its troubled &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/congo-now-faces-2nd-ebola-outbreak-in-northern-province\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Congo Now Faces 2nd Ebola Outbreak in Northern Province<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[216,1292,14826,36,22,450,23,8562,42,14709],"class_list":["post-18654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pale-horse","tag-who","tag-congo","tag-covid-19","tag-disaster","tag-disease","tag-ebola","tag-epidemic","tag-measles-outbreak","tag-outbreak","tag-tedros-adhanom-ghebreyesus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18656,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18654\/revisions\/18656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}