{
  "id": 6759069,
  "title": "DR Congo Ebola outbreak spreads to 7th province",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/11/dr-congo-ebola-outbreak-spreads-to-7th-province",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-09-11T12:54:17.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Malaysia Today",
    "slug": "free-malaysia-today",
    "url": "https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/world/2026/09/11/dr-congo-ebola-outbreak-spreads-to-7th-province"
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  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has expanded to a seventh province, according to South-Ubangi governor Jean-Rene Galekwa. This marks the deadliest outbreak in the country's history, with the virus causing over 15,000 deaths across Africa in the past five decades. Detected recently in mid-May, this is the 17th outbreak since the epidemic began. The current strain, Bundibugyo, has no approved vaccine or treatment.\n\nOriginating in northeastern Ituri province, the disease has spread to conflict-ridden and remote eastern and northern regions. The outbreak took a significant step when a patient who had traveled to Rwanda, Uganda, and Ituri province died in South-Ubangi after developing symptoms in the capital of Tshopo province, Kisangani. The patient had spent two days in a health center in Lisala, Mongala province, before being transferred to another hospital in Gwaka, South-Ubangi.\n\nAs the virus can be transmitted through contact with bodily fluids, causing severe internal and external bleeding and organ failure, 38 people have been placed in quarantine under suspicion. The World Health Organization (WHO) has expressed concerns about the insufficient funding to monitor and isolate cases across the vast country. The WHO needs an additional 5,000 health workers to aid in the response and estimates a further 1,600 beds are required beyond the 1,400 already in place at 59 treatment centers.",
  "summary": "The current outbreak in the DRC has killed 3,310 people out of 6,843 confirmed cases.",
  "key_points": [],
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    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Winnipeg Free Press",
        "title": "Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo has now spread to the country’s seventh province, officials say",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/11/ebola-outbreak-in-eastern-congo-has-now-spread-to-the-countrys",
        "published": "2026-09-11T11:36:41.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Free Malaysia Today",
        "title": "DR Congo Ebola outbreak spreads to 7th province",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/11/dr-congo-ebola-outbreak-spreads-to-7th-province-6762222",
        "published": "2026-09-11T12:54:17.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Al Jazeera",
        "title": "Ebola case detected in seventh DR Congo province",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/11/ebola-case-detected-in-seventh-dr-congo-province",
        "published": "2026-09-11T14:32:15.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Medical Xpress",
        "title": "Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo has now spread to the country's seventh province, officials say",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/11/ebola-outbreak-in-eastern-congo-has-now-spread-to-the-countrys-6772309",
        "published": "2026-09-11T15:20:10.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "PBS NewsHour Health",
        "title": "Ebola outbreak in Congo spreads to a 7th province",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/11/ebola-outbreak-in-congo-spreads-to-a-7th-province",
        "published": "2026-09-11T18:16:58.000Z"
      }
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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."
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