{"id":90091,"date":"2026-06-02T06:54:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T06:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=90091"},"modified":"2026-06-02T06:54:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T06:54:17","slug":"ebola-spreading-unchecked-since-january-in-congo-as-patient-zero-identified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/06\/02\/ebola-spreading-unchecked-since-january-in-congo-as-patient-zero-identified\/","title":{"rendered":"Ebola &#8216;spreading unchecked since January&#8217; in Congo as patient zero identified"},"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\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA24gtM5.img?w=768&h=512&m=6\" alt=\"MONGBWALU, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO - MAY 24: Health workers wearing protective equipment carry the body of a suspected Ebola victim during safe burial procedures outside a family home in the community of Mongbwaluon on May 24\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ebola may have been spreading unchecked in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) since January, with local authorities tracing the current outbreak of the deadly virus back to a patient zero <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/other\/ebola-spreading-unchecked-since-january-in-congo-as-patient-zero-identified\/ar-AA24B5tP?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=6a1e78c83e324ec48ebbf1708c4bd7a2&ei=10\">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>Ebola may have been spreading unchecked in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) since January, with local authorities tracing the current outbreak&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[195],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ebola"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/ebola4.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90091","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=90091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90092,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90091\/revisions\/90092"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}