{
  "id": 277346,
  "title": "Alarming Ebola Spread Raises Question of Viral Mutation",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/07/alarming-ebola-spread-raises-question-of-viral-mutation",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-08-07T15:36:59.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Health Policy Watch",
    "slug": "health-policy-watch",
    "url": "https://healthpolicy-watch.news/alarming-ebola-spread-raises-question-of-viral-mutation/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Over 4,000 Ebola Bundibugyo cases and 1,800 deaths have been recorded so far in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) – numbers so alarming that health experts intend to research whether the virus is mutating to become more infectious. This was revealed by Dr Jean Kaseya, the Director General of Africa Centres for Disease Control […]",
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  "coverage": {
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  },
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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."
}