{"id":8875,"date":"2025-03-05T10:10:34","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T16:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=8875"},"modified":"2025-03-05T10:10:37","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T16:10:37","slug":"cdc-says-it-is-monitoring-mysterious-deadly-disease-in-congo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/03\/05\/cdc-says-it-is-monitoring-mysterious-deadly-disease-in-congo\/","title":{"rendered":"CDC says it is monitoring mysterious deadly disease in Congo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Health\/cdc-monitoring-unknown-disease-congo\/story?id=119395101\">ABC News<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is closely monitoring an unknown disease that has&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/50-deaths-linked-unknown-disease-congo\/story?id=119190537\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">killed dozens<\/a>&nbsp;in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the agency said in a statement on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;CDC is monitoring the situation closely and engaging with DRC officials on what support the agency can offer,&#8221; according to an agency spokesperson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At least 1,318 people have exhibited symptoms of the mysterious malady and 53 people have died from the disease as of Feb. 25, the World Health Organization said Tuesday in its most recent update.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Health\/cdc-monitoring-unknown-disease-congo\/story?id=119395101\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" title=\"Yzc NeVWB uo \">Yzc NeVWB uo <\/a> --><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABC News The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is closely monitoring an unknown disease that has&nbsp;killed dozens&nbsp;in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the agency said in a statement on Tuesday. &#8220;CDC is monitoring the situation closely and engaging with DRC officials on what support the agency can offer,&#8221; according to an agency spokesperson. [&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-8875","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\/8875","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=8875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8876,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8875\/revisions\/8876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}