{"id":13322,"date":"2018-11-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2018\/11\/26\/newborns-infected-with-ebola-in-congo-outbreak\/"},"modified":"2018-11-27T16:59:54","modified_gmt":"2018-11-27T16:59:54","slug":"newborns-infected-with-ebola-in-congo-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2018\/11\/26\/newborns-infected-with-ebola-in-congo-outbreak\/","title":{"rendered":"Newborns Infected With Ebola in Congo Outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Seven cases seen in newborn babies and infants younger than 2 years old<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>MONDAY, Nov. 26, 2018 (HealthDay News) &#8212; Ebola infections in newborns are being reported in the current outbreak of the deadly disease in Congo, the World Health Organization says.<\/p>\n<p>In an update late last week, the U.N. health agency said there were 36 new confirmed cases of Ebola, including seven in newborn babies and infants younger than 2 years old, six in children ages 2 to 17, and one case in a pregnant woman, the <i>Associated Press<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p>Ebola is typically spread by infected bodily fluids. Babies may become infected through breast milk or close contact with infected parents, experts suspect.<\/p>\n<p>This outbreak is the worst in the country&#8217;s recorded history, with 346 confirmed cases, including 175 deaths, according to Congo&#8217;s health ministry, the <i>AP<\/i> reported. The outbreak is &#8220;complex and challenging,&#8221; according to WHO, and the risk of it spreading to neighboring countries remains &#8220;very high.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.apnews.com\/7218446381a247118466fa7d03f15fe1\" target=\"_new\"><i>AP News<\/i> Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/vhf\/ebola\/index.html\" target=\"_new\">More Information: CDC<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2018 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seven cases seen in newborn babies and infants younger than 2 years old<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":13340,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-13322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}