{"id":181861,"date":"2024-10-04T22:23:32","date_gmt":"2024-10-04T20:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-specialized-labs-prepared-to-contain-marbug-virus-kemri\/"},"modified":"2024-10-04T22:23:32","modified_gmt":"2024-10-04T20:23:32","slug":"kenya-specialized-labs-prepared-to-contain-marbug-virus-kemri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-specialized-labs-prepared-to-contain-marbug-virus-kemri\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Specialized Labs Prepared to Contain Marbug Virus &#8211; Kemri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>The Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) has announced that it has prepared specialized laboratories across the country following the outbreak of Marburg Virus Disease (MVD) in Rwanda.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">Speaking at the KEMRI Mtwapa Research Facility in Kilifi on Thursday, KEMRI Director General, Prof. Elijah Songok said that these facilities will be used to test samples quickly and effectively, to reinforce the country&#8217;s response efforts and readiness against the disease.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">On September 27, the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202410040540.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 The Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) has announced that it has prepared specialized laboratories across the country following the outbreak of Marburg Virus Disease (MVD) in Rwanda. Speaking at the KEMRI Mtwapa Research Facility in Kilifi on Thursday, KEMRI Director General, Prof. Elijah Songok said that these facilities will be used to test [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":181862,"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":[250],"tags":[258,256,36708,4688,430,21803,49676,257,13315,254,10879,1112],"class_list":["post-181861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-kemri","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-labs","tag-marbug","tag-news","tag-prepared","tag-south-africa-today","tag-specialized","tag-virus"],"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\/181861","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}