{"id":47195,"date":"2019-07-13T07:38:10","date_gmt":"2019-07-13T12:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=47195"},"modified":"2019-07-13T07:38:12","modified_gmt":"2019-07-13T12:38:12","slug":"massive-loss-of-life-3500-deaths-as-simultaneous-ebola-measles-outbreaks-hit-congo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=47195","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Massive Loss Of Life&#8221;: 3,500 Deaths As Simultaneous Ebola &#038; Measles Outbreaks Hit Congo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2019-07-12\/massive-loss-life-2418-confirmed-ebola-cases-congo-alongside-2000-measles-deaths\">&#8220;Massive Loss Of Life&#8221;: 3,500 Deaths As Simultaneous Ebola &amp; Measles Outbreaks Hit Congo<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>World Health Organization (WHO) officials released new staggering numbers this week on the death toll from central Africa&#8217;s latest deadly Ebola virus outbreak.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/ebola%20congo.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption><em>Image source: Reuters<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Confirmed deaths&nbsp;in the Democratic Republic of Congo have&nbsp;<strong>risen to 1,536<\/strong>&nbsp;since the outbreak began there a little under a year ago. And by July 7,&nbsp;<strong>a total of 2,418 what are deemed confirmed and probable cases&nbsp;<\/strong>have been reported,&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2019-07-11\/death-toll-from-ebola-in-congo-increases-to-1-536-who-says\">Bloomberg<\/a>&nbsp;<\/em>said, citing the WHO&#8217;s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apps.who.int\/iris\/bitstream\/handle\/10665\/325790\/SITREP_EVD_DRC_20190707-eng.pdf?ua=1\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">latest report<\/a>&nbsp;on the outbreak.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/ebola%20congo.jpg?itok=n8XWJfaV\"><em>Image source: Reuters<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhile the number of new cases continues to ease in former hot spots, such as Butembo, Katwa and Mandima health zones, there has been\u00a0<strong>an increase in cases in Beni<\/strong>\u00a0and a high incidence continues in parts of Mabalako health zone,\u201d according to the report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The report further noted that in parts of the DRC the &#8220;Ebola outbreak&nbsp;continues this past week with a similar transmission intensity,&#8221; suggesting while it&#8217;s still largely contained within the country&#8217;s borders, the outbreak is still going strong despite emergency interventions.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The Ministry of Health (MoH) and other national authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, WHO, and partners are implementing several outbreak control interventions together with teams in the surrounding provinces, who are taking measures to ensure that they are response-ready,&#8221; the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apps.who.int\/iris\/bitstream\/handle\/10665\/325790\/SITREP_EVD_DRC_20190707-eng.pdf?ua=1\">report continued<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/outbreak%20WHO%20report.png\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption><em>From the World Health Organization&#8217;s (WHO) new External Situation Report in\u00a0the DRC.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Massive Loss Of Life&#8221;: 3,500 Deaths As Simultaneous Ebola &amp; Measles Outbreaks Hit Congo World Health Organization (WHO) officials released new staggering numbers this week on the death toll from central Africa&#8217;s latest deadly Ebola virus outbreak.\u00a0 Confirmed deaths&nbsp;in the Democratic Republic of Congo have&nbsp;risen to 1,536&nbsp;since the outbreak began there a little under a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[10961,2413,223,878,10233],"class_list":["post-47195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-congo","tag-democratic-republic-of-congo","tag-ebola","tag-who","tag-world-health-organization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47195"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47196,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47195\/revisions\/47196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}