{"id":178010,"date":"2024-08-06T15:14:07","date_gmt":"2024-08-06T13:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-the-key-reason-zambias-cholera-death-toll-is-so-high\/"},"modified":"2024-08-06T15:14:07","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T13:14:07","slug":"zambia-the-key-reason-zambias-cholera-death-toll-is-so-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-the-key-reason-zambias-cholera-death-toll-is-so-high\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambia: The Key Reason Zambia&#8217;s Cholera Death Toll Is So High"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"12\">Lusaka, Zambia \u2014 <em>Hospitals are well equipped to handle the disease. The problem? Getting there.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"72\">In Kanyama, a bustling township in Lusaka, Josephine Mwanza watched in horror last year as her mother, Christine Banda, suffered violent bouts of vomiting, hours after they shared a meal on a hot afternoon. Banda had complained of a stomachache the previous day and her frequent trips to the latrine alarmed her daughter. The dread of cholera, a constant threat in their community, became a terrifying&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202408060031.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zambia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zambia\/\">Zambia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lusaka, Zambia \u2014 Hospitals are well equipped to handle the disease. The problem? Getting there. In Kanyama, a bustling township in Lusaka, Josephine Mwanza watched in horror last year as her mother, Christine Banda, suffered violent bouts of vomiting, hours after they shared a meal on a hot afternoon. Banda had complained of a stomachache [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":178011,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn09.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00651391:56e380618061cb5b30b3b721a87affbe:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[825],"tags":[258,256,879,6974,6184,7274,257,9517,254,11260,4709,881,8982],"class_list":["post-178010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cholera","tag-death","tag-high","tag-key","tag-news","tag-reason","tag-south-africa-today","tag-toll","tag-zambia","tag-zambia-news","tag-zambias"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn09.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00651391:56e380618061cb5b30b3b721a87affbe:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178010","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}