{"id":3761,"date":"2014-07-08T09:39:55","date_gmt":"2014-07-08T02:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=3761"},"modified":"2014-07-08T09:40:07","modified_gmt":"2014-07-08T02:40:07","slug":"us-citizen-being-tested-for-ebola-after-visiting-guinea-and-sierra-leone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/us-citizen-being-tested-for-ebola-after-visiting-guinea-and-sierra-leone\/","title":{"rendered":"US citizen being tested for Ebola after visiting Guinea and Sierra Leone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An American man is being quarantined in the African nation of Ghana while researchers there test to see if he\u2019s infected with the deadly Ebola skin-eating virus.<\/p>\n<p>The man, whose name has not yet been released, fell ill this week after traveling through the region, a senior government official in Ghana told Reuters on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He is an American and records showed that he had been to Guinea and Sierra Leone in the past few weeks,&#8221; a health ministry official told Reuters, where a recent outbreak has killed hundreds of people already in 2014&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Sierra Leone News\" href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/usa\/171060-american-citizen-ebola-ghana\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Sierra Leone\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/\">Sierra Leone<\/a> News<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An American man is being quarantined in the African nation of Ghana while researchers there test to see if he\u2019s infected with the deadly Ebola skin-eating virus. The man, whose name has not yet been released, fell ill this week after traveling through the region, a senior government official in Ghana told Reuters on Monday. [&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":[1118,1109],"tags":[258,256,2332,2330,1110,257,4714,1135,254,2331,4692],"class_list":["post-3761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-guinea","category-sierra-leone","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-american","tag-ebola-skin-eating-virus","tag-ebola-virus","tag-news","tag-sierra-leone","tag-sierra-leone-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-us-citizen","tag-west-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3761","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=3761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3761\/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=3761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}