{"id":92612,"date":"2026-08-07T07:01:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T07:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=92612"},"modified":"2026-08-07T07:01:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T07:01:16","slug":"ebola-virus-behind-massive-outbreak-in-drc-could-be-mutating-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/08\/07\/ebola-virus-behind-massive-outbreak-in-drc-could-be-mutating-officials-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Ebola virus behind massive outbreak in DRC could be mutating, officials say"},"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:\/\/www.bing.com\/th?id=ONUT.tVHtXaa-tPviNIm3wQNggQ&pid=News&w=316&h=200&c=14&rs=2&qlt=90&dpr=1.5\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The virus causing a massive outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo could be mutating, health officials fear, as confirmed cases pass 4,000.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/general\/ebola-virus-behind-massive-outbreak-in-drc-could-be-mutating-officials-say\/ar-AA29y22H?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=6a757e38bf1a4f37bc23141226580398&ei=12\">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 virus causing a massive outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo could be mutating, health officials fear, as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68716,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[195],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ebola"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Congo-DRC.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92612","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=92612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92613,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92612\/revisions\/92613"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}