{"id":8315,"date":"2018-07-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2018\/07\/25\/who-congo-ebola-outbreak-over\/"},"modified":"2018-07-26T16:07:11","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T16:07:11","slug":"who-congo-ebola-outbreak-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2018\/07\/25\/who-congo-ebola-outbreak-over\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO: Congo Ebola Outbreak Over"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Outbreak was extinguished in less than three months with just 33 deaths<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>WEDNESDAY, July 25, 2018 (HealthDay News) &#8212; The latest Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is over, according to the World Health Organization.<\/p>\n<p>The outbreak began in April and was the first in which a new vaccine was quickly utilized, <i>The New York Times<\/i> reported. At one point, experts were worried the deadly virus might spread throughout Central Africa. But the outbreak was extinguished in less than three months with just 33 deaths.<\/p>\n<p>The last known Ebola case in Congo was in early June, but the WHO had to wait 42 days before declaring the outbreak officially over. That&#8217;s the length of two viral incubation periods, <i>The Times<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p>The WHO was harshly criticized for its slow response to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa a few years ago that claimed more than 11,000 lives. This time, the WHO took action as soon as a few Ebola deaths were confirmed in Congo.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/news-room\/detail\/24-07-2018-ebola-outbreak-in-drc-ends-who-calls-for-international-efforts-to-stop-other-deadly-outbreaks-in-the-country\" target=\"_new\">More Information<\/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>Outbreak was extinguished in less than three months with just 33 deaths<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":8331,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-8315","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\/8315","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=8315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}