{"id":7787,"date":"2026-11-03T15:15:52","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T15:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/03\/us-bound-passengers-must-declare-dr-congo-travel-under-new-ebola-rules\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T15:15:52","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T15:15:52","slug":"us-bound-passengers-must-declare-dr-congo-travel-under-new-ebola-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/03\/us-bound-passengers-must-declare-dr-congo-travel-under-new-ebola-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"US-bound passengers must declare DR Congo travel under new Ebola rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img width=\"1024\" height=\"577\" src=\"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/US-bound-passengers-must-declare-DR-Congo-travel-under-new-Ebola-rules.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"US-bound passengers must declare DR Congo travel under new Ebola rules\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" srcset=\"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/US-bound-passengers-must-declare-DR-Congo-travel-under-new-Ebola-rules.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.vanguardngr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image-98-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.vanguardngr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image-98-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/cdn.vanguardngr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image-98-1536x865.png 1536w, https:\/\/cdn.vanguardngr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image-98.png 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">US-bound air passengers must sign a statement that they have not travelled to the Democratic Republic of Congo, the epicentre of a deadly Ebola outbreak, under new rules coming\u00a0into force on Tuesday,\u00a0according to the\u00a0Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Africa\u2019s latest Ebola outbreak has killed more than 5,300 people, the vast majority of them in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), according to the continent\u2019s top health agency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anyone boarding an international flight to the United States must sign a statement that they have not been present in the DRC in the 21 days before their travel, according to the CDC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The CDC said the rules are required as \u201ca public health measure intended to reduce the risk of Ebola being introduced into the United States through air travel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/2026\/11\/us-bound-passengers-must-declare-dr-congo-travel-under-new-ebola-rules\/\">US-bound passengers must declare DR Congo travel under new Ebola rules<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/\">Vanguard News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">Vanguard News<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US-bound air passengers must sign a statement that they have not travelled to the Democratic Republic of Congo, the epicentre of a deadly Ebola outbreak, under new rules coming\u00a0into force&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7788,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}