{"id":10264,"date":"2025-09-10T14:49:30","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T19:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=10264"},"modified":"2025-09-10T14:49:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T19:49:33","slug":"red-cross-responds-as-deadly-ebola-resurfaces-in-drcs-kasai-province-after-17-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/09\/10\/red-cross-responds-as-deadly-ebola-resurfaces-in-drcs-kasai-province-after-17-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Cross responds as deadly Ebola resurfaces in DRC\u2019s Kasa\u00ef Province after 17 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ifrc.org\/press-release\/red-cross-responds-deadly-ebola-resurfaces-drcs-kasai-province-after-17-years\">IFRC<\/a> The Ministry of Health of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has officially declared a new outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in Kasa\u00ef Province. This marks the country\u2019s 16th recorded Ebola epidemic and the first in this region since 2008.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), in coordination with the DRC Red Cross, DRC Ministry of Health, WHO, and key humanitarian partners, is rapidly intensifying Ebola response efforts. Priority actions include deploying rapid response teams and volunteers within communities, strengthening surveillance and contact tracing, and initiating targeted vaccination for frontline workers and contacts. Over 2,000 doses of the Ervebo vaccine are already pre-positioned in Kinshasa for immediate deployment.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The outbreak was confirmed after the death of a 34-year-old pregnant woman on 20 August in Bulape health zone. This was followed by the deaths of a nurse and a laboratory technician who had treated her. According to Government figures, to date,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sante.gouv.cd\/actualites\/declaration-officielle-reapparition-de-la-maladie-a-virus-ebola-souche-zaire-a-boulape-b-u-l-a-p-e-kasai\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"28 suspected cases, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>28 suspected cases<\/strong><\/a><strong>,&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/sante.gouv.cd\/actualites\/declaration-officielle-reapparition-de-la-maladie-a-virus-ebola-souche-zaire-a-boulape-b-u-l-a-p-e-kasai\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"including 16 deaths, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>including 16 deaths<\/strong><\/a><strong>, have been recorded\u2014<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/sante.gouv.cd\/actualites\/declaration-officielle-reapparition-de-la-maladie-a-virus-ebola-souche-zaire-a-boulape-b-u-l-a-p-e-kasai\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"a fatality rate of 57%, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>a fatality rate of 57%<\/strong><\/a><strong>.<\/strong>&nbsp;Alarmingly, four of the deaths are among healthcare workers, underscoring the risks faced by frontline responders.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IFRC The Ministry of Health of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has officially declared a new outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in Kasa\u00ef Province. This marks the country\u2019s 16th recorded Ebola epidemic and the first in this region since 2008.&nbsp; The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), in coordination [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ebola","category-featured-headlines"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10265,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10264\/revisions\/10265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}