{"id":21222,"date":"2026-05-17T06:24:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T06:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/?p=21222"},"modified":"2026-05-17T06:24:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T06:24:29","slug":"who-declares-international-health-emergency-over-ebola-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/2026\/05\/17\/who-declares-international-health-emergency-over-ebola-outbreak\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO declares international health emergency over Ebola outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KABUL: The World Health Organization has declared the Ebola outbreak spreading in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda a \u201cpublic health emergency of international concern.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a statement issued Sunday, the WHO warned that the outbreak poses a growing risk of spreading to neighboring countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the organization, the Ebola outbreak caused by the Bundibugyo virus strain does not yet warrant classification as a global pandemic, but countries sharing land borders with Congo and Uganda face a high risk of transmission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The WHO said 80 suspected deaths linked to the outbreak and eight confirmed Ebola-related fatalities have so far been recorded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An additional 246 suspected cases have also been reported in Ituri province in eastern Congo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The WHO described the outbreak as \u201cunusual,\u201d noting that there is currently no approved vaccine or treatment for the Bundibugyo strain of the Ebola virus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL: The World Health Organization has declared the Ebola outbreak spreading in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda a \u201cpublic health emergency of international concern.\u201d In a statement issued Sunday, the WHO warned that the outbreak poses a growing risk of spreading to neighboring countries. According to the organization, the Ebola outbreak caused [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":21223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[73],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21222"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21224,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21222\/revisions\/21224"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}