{"id":10378,"date":"2025-09-24T14:18:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T19:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=10378"},"modified":"2025-09-24T14:18:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T19:18:22","slug":"ebola-outbreak-in-dr-congo-adds-11-new-cases-in-past-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/09\/24\/ebola-outbreak-in-dr-congo-adds-11-new-cases-in-past-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Ebola outbreak in DR Congo adds 11 new cases in past week"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cidrap.umn.edu\/ebola\/ebola-outbreak-dr-congo-adds-11-new-cases-past-week\">CIDRAP<\/a> Eleven new Ebola virus cases have been added to the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/iris.who.int\/server\/api\/core\/bitstreams\/8439813c-2dfb-4220-8853-3e64dc300bf6\/content\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"outbreak, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">outbreak<\/a>&nbsp;in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in the past week, pushing the case total to 57, including 35 deaths, for a death rate of 61.4%, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First declared on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cidrap.umn.edu\/ebola\/dr-congo-declares-ebola-outbreak-kasai-province\">September 4<\/a>, the outbreak is still confined to the Bulape Health Zone in Kasai Province. Of the 57 cases, 47 were confirmed, and 10 were probable; of the 35 deaths, 25 were confirmed, and 10 were probable. Five of the confirmed cases were diagnosed in healthcare workers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ebola, which spreads through infected blood and other body fluids, typically causes fever and weakness, followed by diarrhea and vomiting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Children account for 23% of all infections<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Infected patients range in age from 0 to 65 years, with those 0 to 9 years making up 23% of all cases. While females account for most cases (61%), their death rate is lower than that of males (56% vs 73%).<\/p>\n<div style=\"display: none;\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" title=\" C hWQ \"> C hWQ <\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CIDRAP Eleven new Ebola virus cases have been added to the&nbsp;outbreak&nbsp;in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in the past week, pushing the case total to 57, including 35 deaths, for a death rate of 61.4%, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported yesterday. First declared on&nbsp;September 4, the outbreak is still confined to the [&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-10378","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\/10378","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=10378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10379,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10378\/revisions\/10379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}