{"id":1308,"date":"2026-05-15T11:39:55","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T11:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=1308"},"modified":"2026-05-15T11:39:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T11:39:55","slug":"ebola-outbreak-kills-65-people-in-eastern-democratic-republic-of-the-congo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=1308","title":{"rendered":"Ebola outbreak kills 65 people in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Concerns raised that cases were caused by a new strain of the virus as African health officials race to coordinate and contain the infection<\/p>\n<p>An outbreak of Ebola has killed 65 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, according to African health officials.<\/p>\n<p>There have been 246 suspected cases of the deadly haemorrhagic fever reported so far in Ituri province, which shares borders with Uganda and South Sudan.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2026\/may\/15\/ebola-outbreak-drc-africa-deaths\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Concerns raised that cases were caused by a new strain of the virus as African health officials race to coordinate and contain the infection An outbreak of Ebola has killed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=1308\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1309,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}