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GENEVA, May 29- The \u200cWorld Health Organization said on Friday that there were 906 suspected cases of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo, including 223 suspected deaths that were being investigated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
An outbreak of the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola is ongoing in \u200bthe Democratic Republic of the Congo, with cases also reported in Uganda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There have been 125 \u200bconfirmed cases of Ebola in the DRC, including 17 confirmed deaths in Ituri, North \u2060Kivu and South Kivu. There have also been seven confirmed cases of Ebola in Uganda, three \u200bof which were imported from the DRC, and one death. However, no community transmission has been reported, the \u200bWHO said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The\u00a0Ebola outbreak<\/a>\u00a0in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo likely started two months ago, the World Health Organization said in early May. The outbreak of the rare , for which there is no vaccine, was declared by the WHO \u200ba\u00a0public health emergency<\/a>\u00a0of international concern. It has alarmed experts because of how long it went undetected \u200bwhile spreading across a densely populated area, making it difficult to trace and isolate the contacts of infected individuals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" (Reuters) GENEVA, May 29- The \u200cWorld Health Organization said on Friday that there were 906 suspected cases of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo, including 223 suspected deaths that were being investigated. An outbreak of the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola is ongoing in \u200bthe Democratic Republic of the Congo, with cases also reported in Uganda. There have been 125 \u200bconfirmed cases of Ebola in the DRC, including 17 confirmed deaths in Ituri, North \u2060Kivu and South Kivu. There have also been seven confirmed cases of Ebola in Uganda, three \u200bof which were imported from the DRC, and one death…. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58072,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58073,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58071\/revisions\/58073"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/58072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}