{"id":36240,"date":"2020-06-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2020\/06\/25\/congo-marks-end-of-worlds-second-deadliest-ebola-outbreak\/"},"modified":"2020-06-26T16:10:07","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T16:10:07","slug":"congo-marks-end-of-worlds-second-deadliest-ebola-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2020\/06\/25\/congo-marks-end-of-worlds-second-deadliest-ebola-outbreak\/","title":{"rendered":"Congo Marks End of World&#8217;s Second Deadliest Ebola Outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>The outbreak began in August 2018 and resulted in 2,280 deaths<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>THURSDAY, June 25, 2020 (HealthDay News) &#8212; The end of the second deadliest Ebola outbreak in history was officially marked Thursday by the Democratic Republic of Congo.<\/p>\n<p>The outbreak began in August 2018 and resulted in 2,280 deaths, the <i>Associated Press<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are extremely proud to have been able to be victorious over an epidemic that lasted such a long time,&#8221; said Jean-Jacques Muyembe, Ph.D., who led the nation&#8217;s Ebola fight and whose team developed a new treatment for the previously incurable disease.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the official end of the outbreak, the country faces other serious health threats, including a new Ebola outbreak in the north and the world&#8217;s largest measles epidemic, the <i>AP<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/5c3f83761270c6531b11e4766fbd11bd\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>AP News<\/i> Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2020 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The outbreak began in August 2018 and resulted in 2,280 deaths<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":36258,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-36240","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\/36240","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=36240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}