{"id":198486,"date":"2025-05-20T19:15:45","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T17:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-mpox-takes-center-stage-in-liberia\/"},"modified":"2025-05-20T19:15:45","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T17:15:45","slug":"liberia-mpox-takes-center-stage-in-liberia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-mpox-takes-center-stage-in-liberia\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Mpox Takes Center Stage in Liberia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\">A wave of concern is sweeping across Liberia following a public confession by popular comedian Jabateh, who revealed he is currently battling Mpox, a viral illness caused by the Monkeypox virus. His disclosure has ignited a national conversation around health safety, government intervention, and public awareness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"69\">In a video posted to social media on Saturday, May 17, 2025, Jabateh recounted how he believes he contracted the virus. According to him, the infection followed a fan interaction during a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505200330.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A wave of concern is sweeping across Liberia following a public confession by popular comedian Jabateh, who revealed he is currently battling Mpox, a viral illness caused by the Monkeypox virus. His disclosure has ignited a national conversation around health safety, government intervention, and public awareness. In a video posted to social media on Saturday, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":198487,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[258,256,7621,4712,1107,49242,257,254,4281,5056],"class_list":["post-198486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-center","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-mpox","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stage","tag-takes"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/198486","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=198486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}