{"id":2988,"date":"2019-06-07T08:47:10","date_gmt":"2019-06-07T08:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=2988"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:20","slug":"large-ebola-outbreaks-new-normal-says-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/06\/07\/large-ebola-outbreaks-new-normal-says-who\/","title":{"rendered":"Large Ebola Outbreaks New Normal, Says WHO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By James Gallagher<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The world is entering &#8220;a new\nphase&#8221; where large outbreaks of deadly diseases like Ebola are a &#8220;new\nnormal&#8221;, the World Health Organization warns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Previous Ebola outbreaks affected\nrelatively small numbers of people. But the Democratic Republic of Congo is\ndealing with the second ever largest outbreak, just three years after the\nworld&#8217;s largest outbreak ended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The WHO said countries and\nother bodies needed to focus on preparing for new deadly epidemics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There have been 2,025\ncases of Ebola and 1,357 deaths from the virus during the outbreak in the\nDemocratic Republic of Congo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The largest\noutbreak,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/vhf\/ebola\/history\/2014-2016-outbreak\/index.html\"><strong>in West Africa in 2014-16<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;affected 28,616 people mostly in Guinea,\nLiberia and Sierra Leone. There were 11,310 deaths\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/health-48547983\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By James Gallagher The world is entering &#8220;a new phase&#8221; where large outbreaks of deadly diseases like Ebola are a &#8220;new normal&#8221;, the World Health Organization warns. Previous Ebola outbreaks&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}