{"id":89360,"date":"2026-05-18T12:17:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T12:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=89360"},"modified":"2026-05-18T12:17:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T12:17:24","slug":"no-vaccine-no-treatment-experts-raise-alarm-over-rare-strain-of-ebola-spreading-through-africa-as-who-declares-global-health-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/05\/18\/no-vaccine-no-treatment-experts-raise-alarm-over-rare-strain-of-ebola-spreading-through-africa-as-who-declares-global-health-emergency\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;No vaccine&#8230; no treatment&#8217;: Experts raise alarm over rare strain of Ebola spreading through Africa as WHO declares global health emergency"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.com\/1s\/2026\/05\/18\/10\/108687367-15826943-image-a-4_1779095857738.jpg\" alt=\"The WHO declared the outbreak a global health emergency after cases spread from the Democratic Republic of Congo into neighbouring Uganda. Pictured: A health worker at an Ebola transit centre in Beni in North Kivu province, Democratic Republic of the Congo, in May 2019\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The deadly\u00a0<span data-track-module=\"internal-body-link\"><a id=\"mol-78028120-5299-11f1-9ad7-77b7d268dd52\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.com\/news\/ebola\/index.html\" target=\"_self\">Ebola<\/a><\/span> virus rampaging through central Africa is a rare strain that has no approved vaccine or targeted treatment, experts have warned. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.com\/health\/article-15826943\/Ebola-Africa-global-health-emergency.html\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>The deadly\u00a0Ebola virus rampaging through central Africa is a rare strain that has no approved vaccine or targeted treatment, experts have warned&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58901,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[195],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-89360","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ebola"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Ebola-5.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89361,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89360\/revisions\/89361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}