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        "msgid": "record-ebola-in-congo-surpasses-1-000-cases-in-a-month-1782302037",
        "date": "2026-06-24 17:15:43",
        "title": "Record: Ebola in Congo Surpasses 1,000 Cases in a Month",
        "author": "",
        "source": "DETIK",
        "tags": "",
        "topic": "Health",
        "summary": "The World Health Organization reports the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has set a record for the highest number of confirmed cases in the first month of any African outbreak. The Bundibugyo ebolavirus strain has caused over 1,000 cases and 267 deaths, spreading into crowded displacement camps. Meanwhile, Kenya's health minister has halted construction of a US-backed Ebola quarantine facility following public protests and a court order.",
        "content": "<p>Senior World Health Organization (WHO) officials stated during a\nbriefing in Geneva on Tuesday (23\/6) that the Ebola outbreak in the\nDemocratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has recorded the highest number of\nconfirmed cases in the first month compared to any previous Ebola\noutbreak in Africa. As of Monday (22\/6), officials had confirmed more\nthan 1,000 cases and 267 deaths from the Bundibugyo ebolavirus outbreak,\na relatively rare strain of Ebola. \u201cThis is the largest number of\nconfirmed cases in the first month of an Ebola disease outbreak in\nAfrica,\u201d said WHO Director of Health Emergency Alert and Response\nOperations, Abdirahman Mahamud, in a press release. The WHO officially\nconfirmed the outbreak on 15 May, but experts believe the virus may have\nbeen circulating for weeks or even months prior. Dozens of cases have\nbeen confirmed in displacement camps in eastern Congo. \u201cThe response\nmust be scaled up to keep pace with the evolving outbreak, and that is\nbeginning to happen,\u201d Mahamud said after returning from a visit last\nweek to a treatment centre in Bunia, the epicentre of the outbreak.\nCases have now also been confirmed in at least three densely populated\ndisplacement camps in the conflict-ridden eastern region of Congo.\nAbdoulaye Wone from the International Organization for Migration (IOM)\nsaid during the same briefing in Geneva on Tuesday that 25 cases had\nbeen confirmed in those camps, including 14 deaths. According to the\nUnited States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there\nhave been more than 20 Ebola outbreaks in Africa since the 1970s. The\ntwo deadliest outbreaks occurred in Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia in\nWest Africa, killing 11,000 people between 2014 and 2016, and another\noutbreak in Congo that began in 2018 with 2,229 recorded deaths.\nSeparately, Kenya\u2019s Health Minister, Aden Duale, assured a Kenyan court\non Tuesday that he had ordered the immediate halt of construction of a\nUS-backed Ebola quarantine facility at an airbase. Duale was found in\ncontempt of court on Monday (22\/6) for failing to comply with a previous\norder to stop construction pending a judicial review. The tented\nfacility in the town of Nanyuki, central Kenya, was planned as a\ntreatment centre for US citizens should they contract Ebola during the\noutbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The plan, first announced\nin May, sparked protests that turned violent on several occasions,\nresulting in three deaths near the site. Judge Patricia Nyaundi Mande\ndischarged Duale without further penalty after accepting his assurances,\nbut warned him against further ignoring court orders. \u201cI have instructed\nthe immediate and complete cessation of any construction plans, site\npreparations, or related activities concerning the facility at Laikipia\nAirbase until the hearing and determination of the main suit or until\nfurther orders from this court,\u201d Duale said during the sentencing\nhearing on Tuesday (23\/6). The facility was being built at Laikipia\nAirbase, about 200 kilometres from the capital Nairobi, with a capacity\nof approximately 50 isolation beds. US medical personnel were expected\nto manage the facility. The plan triggered widespread domestic\nopposition and protests. Kenya has never recorded a single Ebola case,\nleading to public concerns about bringing patients into the country,\neven if flown directly to a secure medical facility. Human rights groups\nalso successfully filed a lawsuit arguing the facility was being built\nsecretly without public consultation. The government initially ignored\nthe order to halt construction pending further review. Flight tracking\ndata, satellite imagery, and accounts from US officials speaking on\ncondition of anonymity indicated that site preparations continued\ndespite the initial court order. The only US citizen to have contracted\nEbola in the current outbreak, a doctor working as a medical missionary\nin the outbreak\u2019s epicentre in eastern DRC, was flown to Germany for\ntreatment at a specialist facility in Berlin. Kenya does not share a\ndirect border with the Democratic Republic of Congo, but it lies\ndirectly east of Uganda, which borders the outbreak\u2019s epicentre in Ituri\nProvince, eastern DRC.<\/p>",
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