{"id":3237,"date":"2019-06-20T10:58:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T10:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=3237"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:21","slug":"measles-kills-more-than-ebola-in-congo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/06\/20\/measles-kills-more-than-ebola-in-congo\/","title":{"rendered":"Measles Kills More Than Ebola In Congo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By Reuters, Standard Digital<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Democratic Republic of\nCongo\u2019s government has declared an epidemic of&nbsp;measles, which the latest\nhealth ministry figures show has now killed at least 1,500 people, a hundred\nmore than have died of Ebola.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While\nhealth officials have focused on the hemorrhagic Ebola virus in Congo\u2019s east,\nabout 87,000 suspected&nbsp;measles&nbsp;cases have been reported across the\ncountry so far this year, more than the 65,000 recorded in the whole of last\nyear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Congo\u2019s\nhealth ministry announced the&nbsp;measles&nbsp;figure when it declared the\nepidemic on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said on Tuesday\nthat 1,500 deaths from&nbsp;measles&nbsp;had been recorded in the first five\nmonths of 2019, the highest since 2012, which was the\ndeadliest&nbsp;measles&nbsp;epidemic of the last decade. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standardmedia.co.ke\/article\/2001330660\/measles-kills-more-than-ebola\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Reuters, Standard Digital Democratic Republic of Congo\u2019s government has declared an epidemic of&nbsp;measles, which the latest health ministry figures show has now killed at least 1,500 people, a hundred&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3238,"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-3237","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\/3237","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=3237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}