{"id":10384,"date":"2025-09-24T16:20:34","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T21:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=10384"},"modified":"2025-09-24T16:20:37","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T21:20:37","slug":"us-warns-of-new-ebola-outbreak-in-dr-congo-what-people-should-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/09\/24\/us-warns-of-new-ebola-outbreak-in-dr-congo-what-people-should-know\/","title":{"rendered":"US warns of new Ebola outbreak in DR Congo. What people should know"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/09\/24\/health\/ebola-virus-outbreak-dr-congo-wellness\">CNN<\/a> The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/han\/php\/notices\/han00524.html\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"issued a new health advisory, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">issued a new health advisory<\/a>&nbsp;about the latest outbreak of Ebola virus disease in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Thirty-seven confirmed cases and 19 deaths have been reported as of September 18 during this outbreak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The CDC also issued a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wwwnc.cdc.gov\/travel\/notices\/level1\/ebola-democratic-republic-of-the-congo\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"travel health notice, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">travel health notice<\/a>&nbsp;on September 8 for Congo, recommending that travelers to the affected health zones avoid contact with ill people and monitor themselves for&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/ebola\/signs-symptoms\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"symptoms, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">symptoms<\/a>&nbsp;of Ebola while in the outbreak area and for 21 days after leaving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What is Ebola \u2014 what causes it, what are the symptoms and how dangerous is it? How is the disease spread? What treatments are available? Is there a vaccine? And what should people know about this outbreak and why the CDC has issued alerts?<\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"RQD    xB  t  \"><!-- RQD    xB  t   --><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has&nbsp;issued a new health advisory&nbsp;about the latest outbreak of Ebola virus disease in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Thirty-seven confirmed cases and 19 deaths have been reported as of September 18 during this outbreak. The CDC also issued a&nbsp;travel health notice&nbsp;on September 8 for Congo, recommending [&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-10384","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\/10384","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=10384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10385,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10384\/revisions\/10385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}