{"id":768,"date":"2026-05-23T11:18:45","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T11:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sunnygh.com\/?p=768"},"modified":"2026-05-23T11:18:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T11:18:46","slug":"american-missionary-doctor-contracts-ebola-as-congo-outbreak-intensifiesemily-belz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnygh.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/23\/american-missionary-doctor-contracts-ebola-as-congo-outbreak-intensifiesemily-belz\/","title":{"rendered":"American Missionary Doctor Contracts Ebola as Congo Outbreak IntensifiesEmily Belz"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr. Peter Stafford was working at a Christian hospital near the center of the outbreak that has killed at least 131. An American missionary doctor working at a Christian hospital near the center of the new Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has contracted the deadly disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr. Peter Stafford, a surgeon and burn specialist at Nyankunde Hospital, is among more than 500 Ebola cases documented in recent weeks in what the World Health Organization has described as a global emergency. Cases have also popped up in Uganda. At least 131 people have died.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Stafford has been evacuated from Congo, according to his sending mission agency Serge. The Centers For Disease Control and Prevention\u2019s head of Ebola response, Dr. Satish K. Pillai, shared that an unnamed American working in Congo had been evacuated to Germany.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Peter Stafford was working at a Christian hospital near the center of the outbreak that has killed at least 131. An American missionary doctor working at a Christian hospital near the center of the new Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has contracted the deadly disease. Dr. Peter Stafford, a surgeon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-and-wellness"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunnygh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunnygh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunnygh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunnygh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunnygh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sunnygh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":769,"href":"https:\/\/sunnygh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768\/revisions\/769"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunnygh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunnygh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunnygh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunnygh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}