{"id":344392,"date":"2026-05-17T21:00:04","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T20:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/ebola-in-congo-and-uganda-who-declares-global-health-emergency\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T21:00:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T20:00:04","slug":"ebola-in-congo-and-uganda-who-declares-global-health-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/ebola-in-congo-and-uganda-who-declares-global-health-emergency\/","title":{"rendered":"Ebola in Congo and Uganda: WHO declares global health emergency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.ytimg.com\/vi\/tEqJnMTnzyE\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Ebola in Congo and Uganda: WHO declares global health emergency\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tEqJnMTnzyE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>The Democratic Republic of Congo is no stranger to Ebola, but its latest outbreak has now been declared a global health emergency. <\/p>\n<p>The highly contagious virus has already caused 80 suspected deaths, with eight confirmed cases and another 246 suspected. <\/p>\n<p>The epicentre is in eastern Ituri province, but two cases have also been confirmed in Uganda. <\/p>\n<p>And the World Health Organisation warns that clusters of deaths across Ituri point to a potentially much larger outbreak than what&#8217;s been reported so far. <\/p>\n<p>[Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https:\/\/channel4news.substack.com\/subscribe]<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;-<br \/>\nGet more news at our site &#8211; https:\/\/www.channel4.com\/news\/<br \/>\nSubscribe to our Substack newsletter: https:\/\/channel4news.substack.com\/subscribe<br \/>\nFollow us:<br \/>\nTikTok &#8211; https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@c4news<br \/>\nInstagram &#8211; https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/channel4news\/<br \/>\nTwitter &#8211; https:\/\/twitter.com\/Channel4News<br \/>\nFacebook &#8211; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Channel4News\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Democratic Republic of Congo is no stranger to Ebola, but its latest outbreak has now been declared a global health emergency. 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