{"id":4889,"date":"2026-08-01T14:19:56","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T14:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/?p=4889"},"modified":"2026-08-01T14:19:58","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T14:19:58","slug":"congo-ebola-outbreak-becomes-worlds-second-largest-on-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/2026\/08\/01\/congo-ebola-outbreak-becomes-worlds-second-largest-on-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Congo Ebola Outbreak Becomes World\u2019s Second-Largest on Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kinshasa: The Democratic Republic of Congo&#8217;s Ebola outbreak has become the world&#8217;s second-largest on record, with the number of reported cases rising to 3,532 and the death toll reaching 1,556, according to government figures.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The country&#8217;s Ministry of Health confirmed that the virus has spread across several areas in eastern Congo. Surveillance and epidemiological investigations have detected transmission in a number of eastern provinces, prompting authorities to intensify containment measures.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Medical teams are working in affected communities to identify cases, prevent further transmission and contain the outbreak. Authorities have also stepped up vaccination campaigns targeting residents in high-risk areas.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite these measures, the virus continues to spread rapidly, with transmission reportedly outpacing containment efforts.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Carl Skau, Acting Executive Director of the UN World Food Programme, described the crisis as the fastest-spreading Ebola epidemic seen to date and called for greater international attention to the worsening situation.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Health authorities are continuing surveillance, vaccination and other emergency measures as they attempt to bring the outbreak under control and prevent further infections.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kinshasa: The Democratic Republic of Congo&#8217;s Ebola outbreak has become the world&#8217;s second-largest on record, with the number of reported cases rising to 3,532 and the death toll reaching 1,556, according to government figures. The country&#8217;s Ministry of Health confirmed that the virus has spread across several areas in eastern Congo. Surveillance and epidemiological investigations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-international-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4891,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4889\/revisions\/4891"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}