{"id":87928,"date":"2019-07-19T16:15:51","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T10:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=8217"},"modified":"2019-07-19T16:15:51","modified_gmt":"2019-07-19T10:45:51","slug":"who-declares-ebola-outbreak-in-congo-a-global-health-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/who-declares-ebola-outbreak-in-congo-a-global-health-emergency\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO declares ebola outbreak in Congo a global health emergency"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The World Health Organization(WHO) has declared the Ebola crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo a public health emergency of international concern.<\/li><li>Public health emergency is defined as an extraordinary event that is determined to constitute a public health risk to other States through the international spread of disease and it requires a coordinated international response.<\/li><li>The public emergency announcement is the highest level of alarm that is only raised during the gravest of outbreak.<\/li><li><strong>Ebola virus disease(EVD) <\/strong>formerly known as Ebola haemorrhagic fever, is a severe often fatal illness in humans.The virus is transmitted to people from wild animals and spreads in the human population through human-to-human transmission.<\/li><li>Ebola initially causes sudden fever, intense weakness, muscle pain and a sore throat.It progresses to vomiting, diarrhoea and both internal and external bleeding.Patients tend to die from dehydration and multiple organ failure.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Health Organization(WHO) has declared the Ebola crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo a public health emergency of international concern. Public health emergency is defined as an extraordinary event that is determined to constitute a public health risk to other States through the international spread of disease and it requires a coordinated international&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/who-declares-ebola-outbreak-in-congo-a-global-health-emergency\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WHO declares ebola outbreak in Congo a global health emergency<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[164],"tags":[2546,2944],"class_list":["post-87928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-relations-daily-factly-articles","tag-congo","tag-ebola-outbreak","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704714024},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}