{"id":2971,"date":"2014-06-21T15:52:31","date_gmt":"2014-06-21T08:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=2971"},"modified":"2014-06-21T15:52:40","modified_gmt":"2014-06-21T08:52:40","slug":"guinea-panicking-as-ebola-virus-spreads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/guinea\/guinea-panicking-as-ebola-virus-spreads\/","title":{"rendered":"Guinea panicking as Ebola virus spreads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Conakry &#8211; A second spike in Ebola virus cases has panicked residents and health officials in Guinea, who fear a west African outbreak of the killer disease may now be out of control.<\/p>\n<p>According to figures released by the World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday, a total of 398 cases of haemorrhagic fever &#8211; causing 264 deaths &#8211; have been reported in Guinea since the start of 2014. Of these, 254 were caused by Ebola.<\/p>\n<p>The incurable disease is spread by contact with bodily fluids including sweat, meaning just touching an infected person is enough to spread the virus.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The government can&#8217;t do anything to fight the disease,&#8221; taxi driver Abdoulaye Barry said of Ebola, one of the deadliest known viruses, which kills its victims by inducing unstoppable internal bleeding&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Guinea News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.news24.com\/Africa\/News\/Guinea-frets-as-Ebola-virus-spreads-20140619\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Guinea\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/guinea\/\">Guinea<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conakry &#8211; A second spike in Ebola virus cases has panicked residents and health officials in Guinea, who fear a west African outbreak of the killer disease may now be out of control. According to figures released by the World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday, a total of 398 cases of haemorrhagic fever &#8211; causing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1118],"tags":[258,256,1111,4715,1124,257,254,4692],"class_list":["post-2971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-guinea","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ebola","tag-guinea","tag-guinea-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-west-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2971","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}