{
  "id": 1491079,
  "title": "What is Ebola and why is the outbreak in DRC causing so much concern?",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/17/what-is-ebola-and-why-is-the-outbreak-in-drc-causing-so-much-concern",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-08-17T12:53:16.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Guardian Science",
    "slug": "guardian-science",
    "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/17/what-is-ebola-why-who-says-drc-uganda-outbreak-global-health-emergency"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Strain of virus with no vaccine has potential to overrun response impeded by conflict and misinformation Health authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are losing their battle to contain the country’s deadliest Ebola outbreak . DRC’s health ministry declared an outbreak in Ituri province on 15 May, though sequencing shows it had begun in February. It has since spread to five other…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "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."
}