{"id":3480,"date":"2014-07-02T10:30:56","date_gmt":"2014-07-02T03:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=3480"},"modified":"2014-07-02T10:31:06","modified_gmt":"2014-07-02T03:31:06","slug":"dr-william-fischer-speaks-of-horror-in-guinea-as-ebola-outbreak-spreads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/guinea\/dr-william-fischer-speaks-of-horror-in-guinea-as-ebola-outbreak-spreads\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr William Fischer speaks of horror in Guinea as Ebola outbreak spreads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WHAT began as a trip to Geneva to analyse technical documents landed US doctor William Fischer in a cement building in the middle of west Africa &#8211; where he witnessed the brutal reality of a rampant Ebola epidemic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI almost didn\u2019t get on the plane because of the fear, because of what we see in movies and in books,\u201d Dr Fischer told News Corp Australia.<\/p>\n<p>At least 759 confirmed or suspected cases of Ebola have been reported across Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone since March this year<\/p>\n<p>The death toll from the body-destroying virus now sits at 467, making this outbreak the deadliest on record according to the World Health Organisation.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Fischer, a pulmonary diseases and critical care specialist from the University of North Carolina, has just returned from treating Ebola patients in Gueckedou, Guinea, near the border of Sierra Leone and Liberia&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Guinea News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/world\/it-is-an-isolating-despair-dr-william-fischer-speaks-of-horror-in-guinea-as-ebola-outbreak-spreads\/story-fndir2ev-1226974712097\" 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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WHAT began as a trip to Geneva to analyse technical documents landed US doctor William Fischer in a cement building in the middle of west Africa &#8211; where he witnessed the brutal reality of a rampant Ebola epidemic. \u201cI almost didn\u2019t get on the plane because of the fear, because of what we see in [&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":[258,256,1978,1111,1119,1980,4715,1124,4712,257,1977,4714,254,1979,4692],"class_list":["post-3480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-guinea","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-body-destroying-virus","tag-ebola","tag-ebola-epidemic","tag-gueckedou","tag-guinea","tag-guinea-news","tag-liberia","tag-news","tag-rampant-ebola-epidemic","tag-sierra-leone","tag-south-africa-today","tag-treating-ebola-patients","tag-west-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3480","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=3480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3480\/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=3480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}