{
  "id": 116203,
  "title": "Congo-Kinshasa: DR Congo - New Centre Opens At Heart of Record Ebola Outbreak",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/04/congo-kinshasa-dr-congo-new-centre-opens-at-heart-of-record-ebola",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-08-04T05:20:23.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "AllAfrica Health",
    "slug": "allafrica-health",
    "url": "https://allafrica.com/stories/202608040010.html"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has opened a new Ebola treatment centre at the Kigonze displacement camp on the outskirts of Bunia, the capital of Ituri province. This comes as the country faces the largest ever recorded outbreak of the highly contagious disease, with cases and deaths continuing to climb sharply. The World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed that the current outbreak surpasses the 2018 to 2020 outbreak, which resulted in 3,317 confirmed cases. The new centre aims to aid in the identification of suspected cases and refer confirmed Ebola patients to treatment centers. However, the outbreak's rapid spread is attributed to factors such as insecurity, population displacement, and cross-border movements, complicating response operations and increasing the risk of further geographical spread.",
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        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/03/congos-ebola-outbreak-is-second-largest-on-record-latest-data-shows",
        "published": "2026-08-03T02:44:00.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Mongabay",
        "title": "Ebola responders persevere in the DRC as Uganda nears end of outbreak",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/03/ebola-responders-persevere-in-the-drc-as-uganda-nears-end-of-outbreak",
        "published": "2026-08-03T18:19:14.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Al Jazeera",
        "title": "DR Congo Ebola outbreak kills more than 1,700 as WHO accelerates trials",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/04/dr-congo-ebola-outbreak-kills-more-than-1-700-as-who-accelerates",
        "published": "2026-08-04T11:47:45.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Japan Times",
        "title": "WHO pleads for more support to tackle Ebola outbreak",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/05/who-pleads-for-more-support-to-tackle-ebola-outbreak",
        "published": "2026-08-05T01:58:00.000Z"
      }
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}