{"id":204232,"date":"2025-08-08T09:44:51","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T07:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/cote-divoire-cholera-in-cote-divoire-at-a-bustling-waterside-hub-red-cross-takes-on-cholera\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T09:44:51","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T07:44:51","slug":"cote-divoire-cholera-in-cote-divoire-at-a-bustling-waterside-hub-red-cross-takes-on-cholera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/cote-divoire-cholera-in-cote-divoire-at-a-bustling-waterside-hub-red-cross-takes-on-cholera\/","title":{"rendered":"Cote d&#8217;Ivoire: Cholera in C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire &#8211; At a Bustling Waterside Hub, Red Cross Takes On Cholera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\"><em> Working in the heart of an outbreak, Red Cross volunteers bring lifesaving information, sanitation supplies, elbow grease and courage to the task of preventing further illness and death. &#8216;Every boat or motorcycle taxi we clean is one less opportunity for the disease to spread.&#8217; <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">When seven people died within just a few days in Vridi Ako in C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire in May 2025, no one suspected cholera.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">Many believed the deaths were the result of a curse or fetishistic practices, beliefs that are still&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508080029.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ivory Coast\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/\">C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire (Ivory Coast)<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Working in the heart of an outbreak, Red Cross volunteers bring lifesaving information, sanitation supplies, elbow grease and courage to the task of preventing further illness and death. &#8216;Every boat or motorcycle taxi we clean is one less opportunity for the disease to spread.&#8217; When seven people died within just a few days in Vridi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":204233,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00671132:3ee3a176a7c794a7d20a9cfaf801d6f3:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1087],"tags":[258,256,52058,879,5958,6183,6555,8816,5959,7448,1218,257,10722,254,5056,44641],"class_list":["post-204232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ivory-coast","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bustling","tag-cholera","tag-cote","tag-cote-divoire","tag-cote-divoire-news","tag-cross","tag-divoire","tag-hub","tag-ivory-coast-news","tag-news","tag-red","tag-south-africa-today","tag-takes","tag-waterside"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00671132:3ee3a176a7c794a7d20a9cfaf801d6f3:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204232","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=204232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}