{"id":10835,"date":"2025-11-19T14:00:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T20:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=10835"},"modified":"2025-11-19T14:00:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T20:00:25","slug":"ethiopia-reports-first-outbreak-of-marburg-ebola-cousin-with-no-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/11\/19\/ethiopia-reports-first-outbreak-of-marburg-ebola-cousin-with-no-vaccine\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia reports first outbreak of Marburg, Ebola cousin with no vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2025\/11\/14\/marburg-virus-ethiopia\/\">Washington Post<\/a> At least nine people in southern Ethiopia have been infected with the deadly Marburg virus, a clinically similar cousin to Ebola, in the East African country\u2019s first outbreak of the highly contagious disease,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.afro.who.int\/countries\/ethiopia\/news\/ethiopia-confirms-first-outbreak-marburg-virus-disease\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"the World Health Organization, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the World Health Organization<\/a>\u00a0said Friday. Ethiopia\u2019s Health Ministry also confirmed the outbreak. The WHO \u201cis actively supporting Ethiopia to contain the outbreak and treat infected people, and supporting all efforts to address the potential of cross-border spread,\u201d Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general of the WHO,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DrTedros\/status\/1989353301964460529\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"said in a post to X, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said in a post to X<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Post At least nine people in southern Ethiopia have been infected with the deadly Marburg virus, a clinically similar cousin to Ebola, in the East African country\u2019s first outbreak of the highly contagious disease,\u00a0the World Health Organization\u00a0said Friday. Ethiopia\u2019s Health Ministry also confirmed the outbreak. The WHO \u201cis actively supporting Ethiopia to contain 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":[6,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-headlines","category-marburg-virus"],"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\/10835","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=10835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10836,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10835\/revisions\/10836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}