{
  "id": 12201894,
  "title": "How Congo’s Ebola Epidemic Got So Bad So Quickly",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/05/how-congos-ebola-epidemic-got-so-bad-so-quickly",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-10-05T04:01:26.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The New York Times",
    "slug": "the-new-york-times",
    "url": "https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/world/africa/ebola-congo-slow-response.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "What happened in Mangala, where residents were left with little outside support, helps explain how this outbreak became the worst seen in the Democratic Republic of Congo.",
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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."
}