{"id":9058,"date":"2025-03-26T12:06:50","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T17:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=9058"},"modified":"2025-03-26T12:06:55","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T17:06:55","slug":"drc-outbreak-linked-to-malaria-officials-confirm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/03\/26\/drc-outbreak-linked-to-malaria-officials-confirm\/","title":{"rendered":"DRC Outbreak Linked to Malaria, Officials Confirm"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newscentral.africa\/drc-outbreak-linked-to-malaria-officials-confirm\/\">News Central Africa<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Health officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo have confirmed that a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/newscentral.africa\/mysterious-illness-in-dr-congo-likely-malaria-says-africa-cdc\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"mysterious illness, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">mysterious illness<\/a>\u00a0responsible for over\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/newscentral.africa\/unknown-illness-kills-50-in-democratic-republic-of-congo\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"50 deaths\u00a0, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">50 deaths\u00a0<\/a>earlier this year was malaria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/africacdc.org\/thematic-area\/national-public-health-institutes-and-research\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"National Public Health Institute, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">National Public Health Institute<\/a>&nbsp;announced late Monday that laboratory tests identified malaria as the cause of the outbreak, which killed 52 people and affected nearly 1,000 others in Equateur province.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newscentral.africa\/drc-outbreak-linked-to-malaria-officials-confirm\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News Central Africa Health officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo have confirmed that a\u00a0mysterious illness\u00a0responsible for over\u00a050 deaths\u00a0earlier this year was malaria. The&nbsp;National Public Health Institute&nbsp;announced late Monday that laboratory tests identified malaria as the cause of the outbreak, which killed 52 people and affected nearly 1,000 others in Equateur province. Continue reading<\/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":[6,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-headlines","category-malaria"],"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\/9058","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=9058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9059,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9058\/revisions\/9059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}