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  "id": 488422,
  "title": "Congo’s Ebola outbreak started months before official declaration: WHO",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/10/congos-ebola-outbreak-started-months-before-official-declaration-who",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-08-10T16:26:21.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Global News",
    "slug": "global-news",
    "url": "https://globalnews.ca/news/12015478/congo-ebola-outbreak-started-months-before-official-declaration/"
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  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The WHO regional director for Africa, Dr. Mohamed Yakub Janabi, said sequencing indicated the outbreak’s start, with some cases early wrongly attributing to malaria and typhoid.",
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      {
        "outlet": "Gulf News",
        "title": "DR Congo: Ebola death figure rises to 1,887",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/10/dr-congo-ebola-death-figure-rises-to-1-887",
        "published": "2026-08-10T00:30:18.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "South China Morning Post",
        "title": "Congo’s Ebola outbreak started months before it was declared, says WHO",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/10/congos-ebola-outbreak-started-months-before-it-was-declared-says-who",
        "published": "2026-08-10T15:47:15.000Z"
      }
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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."
}