{"id":93842,"date":"2019-07-18T11:42:53","date_gmt":"2019-07-18T18:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/ebola-outbreak-in-congo-is-declared-a-global-health-emergency"},"modified":"2019-07-18T11:42:53","modified_gmt":"2019-07-18T18:42:53","slug":"ebola-outbreak-in-congo-is-declared-a-global-health-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/ebola-outbreak-in-congo-is-declared-a-global-health-emergency","title":{"rendered":"Ebola Outbreak in Congo Is Declared a Global Health Emergency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ebola-outbreak-in-congo-is-declared-a-global-health-emergency2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The year-old Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo is now considered a global health emergency, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday, in a formal declaration that many public health experts called long overdue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is still a regional emergency and by no way a global threat,\u201d said Robert Steffen of the University of Zurich, chairman of the W.H.O. emergency committee that recommended the declaration.<\/p>\n<p>But the panel was persuaded by several factors that have made combating the epidemic more urgent in recent weeks: <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/07\/15\/health\/ebola-congo-outbreak.html?module=inline\" title=\"\">The disease reached Goma<\/a>, a city of nearly two million people; the outbreak has raged for a year; the virus has flared again in spots where it had once been contained; and the epidemic hot zone has geographically expanded in northeastern Congo near Rwanda and into Uganda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The year-old Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo is now considered a global health emergency, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday, in a formal declaration that many public health experts called long overdue. \u201cThis is still a regional emergency and by no way a global threat,\u201d said Robert Steffen of the University [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}