{"id":10687,"date":"2026-05-18T18:46:43","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T18:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news678.top\/?p=10687"},"modified":"2026-05-18T18:46:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T18:46:43","slug":"american-doctor-working-in-congo-tests-positive-for-ebola-cdc-and-aid-group-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news678.top\/?p=10687","title":{"rendered":"American doctor working in Congo tests positive for Ebola, CDC and aid group say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-0\">\n  <!-- lil observer --><br \/>\n      <span class=\"content__observer-marker content__observer-marker--fixed lazyload\"\/><\/p>\n<section class=\"content__body\">\n<p>An American doctor working with a medical missionary organization in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has a confirmed case of <span class=\"link\">Ebola<\/span>, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and a Christian missions organization said Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The individual was being taken to Germany for treatment, the CDC said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There are more than 250 suspected cases and 80 suspected deaths in the <span class=\"link\">Ebola outbreak<\/span> in the Congo and neighboring Uganda, the World Health Organization said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sources previously told CBS News that\u00a0<span class=\"link\">at least six Americans<\/span> have been exposed.<\/p>\n<p><em>This is a breaking news story. It will be updated.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<section class=\"content__body--footer\">\n<p class=\"content__meta--contributors\">\n<p>                      <span class=\"byline__author__text\">Leigh Ann  Winick<\/span><\/p>\n<p>        contributed to this report.\n    <\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p>  <!-- data-recirc-source=\"queryly\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation  \">\n        <\/aside>\n<section class=\"content__body--footer\">\n      <!-- tags --><\/p>\n<section class=\"content__tags\">\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p> American doctor working in Congo tests positive for Ebola, CDC and aid group say<br \/>\n<br \/>#American #doctor #working #Congo #tests #positive #Ebola #CDC #aid #group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An American doctor working with a medical missionary organization in the Democratic Republic of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[4908,549,8465,8463,4124,8462,2072,4719,6654,4197],"class_list":["post-10687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories","tag-aid","tag-american","tag-cdc","tag-congo","tag-doctor","tag-ebola","tag-group","tag-positive","tag-tests","tag-working"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/gettyimages-2276381480.jpg",1024,538,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/gettyimages-2276381480-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/gettyimages-2276381480-300x158.jpg",300,158,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/gettyimages-2276381480-768x404.jpg",640,337,true],"large":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/gettyimages-2276381480.jpg",640,336,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/gettyimages-2276381480.jpg",1024,538,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/gettyimages-2276381480.jpg",1024,538,false],"covernews-featured":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/gettyimages-2276381480.jpg",1024,538,false],"covernews-medium":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/gettyimages-2276381480-540x340.jpg",540,340,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/news678.top\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/news678.top\/?cat=7\" rel=\"category\">Stories<\/a>","tag_info":"Stories","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}