{"id":191288,"date":"2025-02-13T06:06:39","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T04:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-what-is-sudan-virus-and-how-similar-is-it-to-ebola\/"},"modified":"2025-02-13T06:06:39","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T04:06:39","slug":"sudan-what-is-sudan-virus-and-how-similar-is-it-to-ebola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-what-is-sudan-virus-and-how-similar-is-it-to-ebola\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: What Is Sudan Virus and How Similar Is It to Ebola?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">The Ugandan government and the World Health Organization recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afro.who.int\/countries\/uganda\/news\/who-accelerates-efforts-support-response-sudan-virus-disease-outbreak-uganda\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">confirmed<\/a> an outbreak of Sudan virus disease. The index (first-known) case of this outbreak is thought to be a 32-year-old male nurse from a hospital in Kampala, the capital of Uganda.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">The WHO reported two main clusters, related to the patient&#8217;s family and a hospital cluster. At the time of writing, the index case is the sole recorded death. The second case was the patient&#8217;s wife, and as of February 11, there were <a href=\"https:\/\/substack.com\/home\/post\/p-156926630\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">nine confirmed&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202502120029.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Sudan\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/sudan\/\">Sudan<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ugandan government and the World Health Organization recently confirmed an outbreak of Sudan virus disease. The index (first-known) case of this outbreak is thought to be a 32-year-old male nurse from a hospital in Kampala, the capital of Uganda. The WHO reported two main clusters, related to the patient&#8217;s family and a hospital cluster. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":191289,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn02.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00590131:9996199630c59b265a077b11f6ebe28d:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,1111,257,44428,254,4708,1613,1112],"class_list":["post-191288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ebola","tag-news","tag-similar","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-virus"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn02.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00590131:9996199630c59b265a077b11f6ebe28d:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}