{"id":371389,"date":"2026-08-19T16:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T15:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/dr-congos-ebola-outbreak-reaches-5000-cases\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T16:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T15:00:08","slug":"dr-congos-ebola-outbreak-reaches-5000-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/dr-congos-ebola-outbreak-reaches-5000-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"DR Congo\u2019s Ebola outbreak reaches 5,000 cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.ytimg.com\/vi\/XzY1DT1aVbo\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"DR Congo\u2019s Ebola outbreak reaches 5,000 cases\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XzY1DT1aVbo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of Congo have now reached 5,000, <\/p>\n<p>[Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https:\/\/channel4news.substack.com\/subscribe]<\/p>\n<p>with more than 2,300 people confirmed dead according to the latest government data.This latest outbreak was discovered in May and health officials now say it is the deadliest in the country\u2019s history, surpassing the scale of the outbreak which started in 2018 and killed over 2,000 people.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>Get more news at our site &#8211; https:\/\/www.channel4.com\/news\/ <\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https:\/\/channel4news.substack.com\/subscribe<\/p>\n<p>Follow 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>Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of Congo have now reached 5,000, [Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https:\/\/channel4news.substack.com\/subscribe] with more than 2,300 people confirmed dead according to the latest government data.This latest outbreak was discovered in May and health officials now say it is the deadliest in the country\u2019s history, surpassing the scale of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":371390,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128813],"tags":[],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-371389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-channel-4-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>DR Congo\u2019s Ebola outbreak reaches 5,000 cases | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch DR Congo\u2019s Ebola outbreak reaches 5,000 cases for free, here on News ISC. 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