{"id":186014,"date":"2024-12-06T12:12:43","date_gmt":"2024-12-06T10:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-lassa-fever-23-people-confirmed-dead-from-48-cases-in-ebonyi-nwifuru\/"},"modified":"2024-12-06T12:12:43","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T10:12:43","slug":"nigeria-lassa-fever-23-people-confirmed-dead-from-48-cases-in-ebonyi-nwifuru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-lassa-fever-23-people-confirmed-dead-from-48-cases-in-ebonyi-nwifuru\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Lassa Fever &#8211; 23 People Confirmed Dead From 48 Cases in Ebonyi &#8211; Nwifuru"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\"><em>&#8220;Though we grief over those that died, we give kudos to doctors without borders for saving the lives of those who survived the disease.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">The Ebonyi State Government, on Thursday, said that 394 suspected cases of Lassa fever have been recorded since January till December in the state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">The government said 48 cases were confirmed from the suspected case and out of which 23 people died of the disease while 25 were discharged.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">Governor Francis Nwifuru of Ebonyi State announced this on Thursday in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202412060196.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>&#8220;Though we grief over those that died, we give kudos to doctors without borders for saving the lives of those who survived the disease.&#8221; The Ebonyi State Government, on Thursday, said that 394 suspected cases of Lassa fever have been recorded since January till December in the state. The government said 48 cases were confirmed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":186015,"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":[258,256,10498,8743,8096,24927,5048,18817,257,4687,393,50116,6321,254],"class_list":["post-186014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cases","tag-confirmed","tag-dead","tag-ebonyi","tag-fever","tag-lassa","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nwifuru","tag-people","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/186014","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=186014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}