{"id":193280,"date":"2025-03-10T18:57:59","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T16:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-fighting-multiple-outbreaks-in-zambias-copperbelt\/"},"modified":"2025-03-10T18:57:59","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T16:57:59","slug":"zambia-fighting-multiple-outbreaks-in-zambias-copperbelt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-fighting-multiple-outbreaks-in-zambias-copperbelt\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambia: Fighting Multiple Outbreaks in Zambia&#8217;s Copperbelt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"61\">Rain lashes the ground in northern Zambia, but the mission presses on. It&#8217;s a Wednesday in January, and the showers that drench this region&#8211;bordering the Democratic Republic of Congo to the north and east&#8211;have done little to dampen the resolve of four epidemiologists. They are here on a 14-day mission, working urgently to contain simultaneous outbreaks of cholera, mpox, and measles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">With a combined 40 years of expertise, Dr. Abiodun Kolapo and Tesfa Getanew&#8211;both from Africa CDC&#8211;along with&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503100024.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>Rain lashes the ground in northern Zambia, but the mission presses on. It&#8217;s a Wednesday in January, and the showers that drench this region&#8211;bordering the Democratic Republic of Congo to the north and east&#8211;have done little to dampen the resolve of four epidemiologists. They are here on a 14-day mission, working urgently to contain simultaneous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":193281,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00651899:fdc0bc86c3208c646dd78dfb90f4b2d9:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[825],"tags":[258,256,16733,4377,11456,257,5785,254,4709,881,8982],"class_list":["post-193280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-copperbelt","tag-fighting","tag-multiple","tag-news","tag-outbreaks","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zambia","tag-zambia-news","tag-zambias"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00651899:fdc0bc86c3208c646dd78dfb90f4b2d9:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193280","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=193280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}