{"id":180533,"date":"2024-09-13T23:23:31","date_gmt":"2024-09-13T21:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-ten-years-after-ebola-learnings-for-lassa-fever-lassa-x-and-pandemic-preparedness-lead\/"},"modified":"2024-09-13T23:23:31","modified_gmt":"2024-09-13T21:23:31","slug":"nigeria-ten-years-after-ebola-learnings-for-lassa-fever-lassa-x-and-pandemic-preparedness-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-ten-years-after-ebola-learnings-for-lassa-fever-lassa-x-and-pandemic-preparedness-lead\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Ten Years After Ebola &#8211; Learnings for Lassa Fever, &#8216;Lassa-X&#8217; and Pandemic Preparedness Lead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"61\">In global health, past epidemics are important learning experiences that shape our responses to future health emergencies. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC5856330\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2014 Ebola epidemic<\/a> in West Africa serves as a stark reminder of the vulnerabilities and strengths of public health systems. As the world continues to face emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases, the lessons from the Ebola crisis remain as relevant 10 years later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"124\">The 2014 Ebola epidemic, which primarily impacted Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia, was the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/emergencies\/situations\/ebola-outbreak-2014-2016-West-Africa#:~:text=2016%20%2D%20West%20Africa-,Overview,outbreak%20than%20all%20others%20combined.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">largest and&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202409130616.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In global health, past epidemics are important learning experiences that shape our responses to future health emergencies. The 2014 Ebola epidemic in West Africa serves as a stark reminder of the vulnerabilities and strengths of public health systems. As the world continues to face emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases, the lessons from the Ebola crisis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":180534,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,1111,5048,18817,49520,7358,49519,257,4687,393,33287,11403,254,7740,5114],"class_list":["post-180533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ebola","tag-fever","tag-lassa","tag-lassax","tag-lead","tag-learnings","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-pandemic","tag-preparedness","tag-south-africa-today","tag-ten","tag-years"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180533","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}