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  "id": 154733,
  "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",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-08-05T01:58:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Japan Times",
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    "url": "https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/08/05/world/science-health/who-support-ebola-outbreak/"
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  "summary": "The outbreak is the biggest ever to have hit the Democratic Republic of Congo, despite being declared less than three months ago.",
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        "outlet": "MyJoyOnline Ghana",
        "title": "Congo’s Ebola outbreak is second-largest on record, latest data shows",
        "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"
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      {
        "outlet": "AllAfrica Health",
        "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",
        "published": "2026-08-04T05:20:23.000Z"
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      {
        "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"
      }
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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."
}