{"id":19901,"date":"2019-05-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2019\/05\/06\/congo-ebola-outbreak-death-toll-surpasses-1000\/"},"modified":"2019-05-07T16:10:17","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T16:10:17","slug":"congo-ebola-outbreak-death-toll-surpasses-1000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2019\/05\/06\/congo-ebola-outbreak-death-toll-surpasses-1000\/","title":{"rendered":"Congo Ebola Outbreak Death Toll Surpasses 1,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>International aid organizations halting their work due to deteriorating security conditions<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>MONDAY, May 6, 2019 (HealthDay News) &#8212; The death toll in the Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo now stands at 1,008, the country&#8217;s health minister reported.<\/p>\n<p>The outbreak was declared nearly nine months ago and is the second deadliest outbreak of the virus, the <i>Associated Press<\/i> reported Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The deadliest outbreak occurred in 2014 to 2016 in West Africa, and more than 11,000 people died.<\/p>\n<p>Hostility toward health workers is hindering efforts to contain the Congo outbreak. International aid organizations have halted their work in some communities due to the risks, the <i>AP<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.apnews.com\/84f1bc2fc3d946f9aeb028b760fbc4d2\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>AP News<\/i> Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2018 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International aid organizations halting their work due to deteriorating security conditions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":19918,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-19901","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\/19901","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=19901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}