{"id":82935,"date":"2026-05-19T07:39:42","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T11:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=82935"},"modified":"2026-05-19T07:39:42","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T11:39:42","slug":"pandemic-watch-ebola-cases-spark-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/pandemic-watch-ebola-cases-spark-fears\/","title":{"rendered":"Pandemic Watch: Ebola Cases Spark Fears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From The New York Times:<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-ac37hb evys1bk0\">The head of the World Health Organization said on Tuesday that he was \u201cdeeply concerned about the scale and speed\u201d of the Ebola outbreak spreading in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda, as the suspected death toll in Congo climbed to over 130 people.\u00a0Laboratory testing has now definitively linked 30 cases to the virus in Congo\u2019s northeastern Ituri Province, where the outbreak was first identified, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director-general of the W.H.O., said in an address to the World Health Assembly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-ac37hb evys1bk0\">Dr. Tedros said the deaths of health care workers, high population mobility in the area and the absence of vaccines or therapeutics for the Bundibugyo species of Ebola behind the outbreak raised fears of further spread and deaths.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"news\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1779176382\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"Pandemic Watch: Ebola Cases Spark Fears\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The New York Times: The head of the World Health Organization said on Tuesday that he was \u201cdeeply concerned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-82935","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82936,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82935\/revisions\/82936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}