{"id":9718,"date":"2026-06-12T12:01:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T12:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=9718"},"modified":"2026-06-12T12:01:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T12:01:11","slug":"ebola-cases-in-drc-rise-to-676-as-kenya-protests-erupt-over-us-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=9718","title":{"rendered":"Ebola cases in DRC rise to 676 as Kenya protests erupt over US plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-bottom:1em; color:#666; font-size:0.9em;\">\n<strong><br \/>\n                    Beth Mole<br \/>\n                <\/strong><br \/>\n &bull;<br \/>\nJune 12, 2026\n<\/div>\n<hr\/>\n<p>Nearly a month into the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, cases continue to rise as officials are still trailing the virus in their response efforts.<\/p>\n<p>As of Thursday, June 11, the <a href=\"https:\/\/insp.cd\/sitrep-n27-mvb_10-06-2026\/\">DRC has reported<\/a> 676 confirmed cases, 136 deaths, and 119 suspected cases. <a href=\"https:\/\/evd-daily.health.go.ug\/\">Uganda is reporting 19<\/a> confirmed cases and two deaths.<\/p>\n<p>The outbreak, caused by the Bundibugyo strain of <em>Ebolavirus<\/em>, is already the third largest Ebola outbreak on record. But health experts fear that it could grow much larger and had been quietly spreading for months before the outbreak was declared on May 15.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/health\/2026\/06\/ebola-cases-in-drc-rise-to-676-as-kenya-protests-erupt-over-us-plans\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/health\/2026\/06\/ebola-cases-in-drc-rise-to-676-as-kenya-protests-erupt-over-us-plans\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top:1.5em;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/health\/2026\/06\/ebola-cases-in-drc-rise-to-676-as-kenya-protests-erupt-over-us-plans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full article &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beth Mole &bull; June 12, 2026 Nearly a month into the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, cases continue to rise as officials are still trailing the virus in their response efforts. As of Thursday, June 11, the DRC has reported 676 confirmed cases, 136 deaths, and 119 suspected cases. Uganda is<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=9718\" class=\"themebutton2\">READ MORE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}