{"id":8813,"date":"2025-02-26T11:55:21","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T17:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=8813"},"modified":"2025-02-26T11:55:23","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T17:55:23","slug":"two-clusters-of-unknown-illness-cases-kill-50-in-democratic-republic-of-congo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/02\/26\/two-clusters-of-unknown-illness-cases-kill-50-in-democratic-republic-of-congo\/","title":{"rendered":"Two clusters of unknown illness cases kill 50 in\u00a0Democratic Republic of Congo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/world\/illness-kill-50-democratic-republic-congo-rcna193788\">NBC News<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe outbreaks, which have seen cases rise rapidly within days, pose a significant public health threat. The exact cause remains unknown,\u201d a World Health Organization spokesperson\u00a0said. More than 50 people have died in recent weeks in two clusters of illness&nbsp;cases&nbsp;with the unknown cause&nbsp;being investigated&nbsp;in northwest Democratic Republic of Congo, the World Health Organization said Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As of Feb. 16,&nbsp;there have been 431 cases and 53 deaths&nbsp;in two outbreaks in remote villages in separate health zones in Equateur province,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/iris.who.int\/bitstream\/handle\/10665\/380529\/OEW7-1016022025.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the WHO said in a bulletin<\/a>. The&nbsp;country is roughly the size of Western Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe outbreaks, which have seen cases rise rapidly within days, pose a significant public health threat. The exact cause remains unknown,\u201d WHO spokesperson&nbsp;Tarik Jasarevic told a briefing Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/world\/illness-kill-50-democratic-republic-congo-rcna193788\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NBC News \u201cThe outbreaks, which have seen cases rise rapidly within days, pose a significant public health threat. The exact cause remains unknown,\u201d a World Health Organization spokesperson\u00a0said. More than 50 people have died in recent weeks in two clusters of illness&nbsp;cases&nbsp;with the unknown cause&nbsp;being investigated&nbsp;in northwest Democratic Republic of Congo, the World Health Organization [&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":[7,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-infectious-diseases","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\/8813","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=8813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8814,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8813\/revisions\/8814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}