{"id":884,"date":"2022-10-13T19:23:34","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T00:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=884"},"modified":"2022-12-13T11:22:08","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T17:22:08","slug":"uganda-faces-ebola-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2022\/10\/13\/uganda-faces-ebola-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda Faces Ebola Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2022\/10\/13\/uganda-ebola-outbreak-virus-health\/\" target=\"_blank\">Foreign Policy<\/a> &#8211; Authorities are scrambling to quell the country\u2019s biggest outbreak in two decades.  Ugandan authorities are scrambling to quell a deadly Ebola outbreak that is believed to have killed\u00a039 people\u00a0and\u00a0infected\u00a0at least 54 people, fueling concerns of a wider\u00a0public health crisis\u00a0since the virus strain currently circulating has no available vaccine. The latest outbreak\u2014Uganda\u2019s\u00a0biggest\u00a0in two decades\u2014was first reported in September and has since hit at least\u00a0six districts\u00a0and Kampala, the country\u2019s capital. On Tuesday, officials\u00a0said\u00a0a man who had died in a Kampala hospital last Friday had Ebola, further compounding fears about how far the virus had spread.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2022\/10\/13\/uganda-ebola-outbreak-virus-health\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign Policy &#8211; Authorities are scrambling to quell the country\u2019s biggest outbreak in two decades. Ugandan authorities are scrambling to quell a deadly Ebola outbreak that is believed to have killed\u00a039 people\u00a0and\u00a0infected\u00a0at least 54 people, fueling concerns of a wider\u00a0public health crisis\u00a0since the virus strain currently circulating has no available vaccine. The latest outbreak\u2014Uganda\u2019s\u00a0biggest\u00a0in two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26,9,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-ebola","category-emerging-infectious-diseases"],"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\/884","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":885,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884\/revisions\/885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}