{"id":3816,"date":"2014-07-09T15:00:33","date_gmt":"2014-07-09T08:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=3816"},"modified":"2014-07-09T15:00:48","modified_gmt":"2014-07-09T08:00:48","slug":"fifty-new-ebola-cases-and-25-deaths-reported-in-west-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/fifty-new-ebola-cases-and-25-deaths-reported-in-west-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifty new Ebola cases and 25 deaths reported in West Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fifty new cases of Ebola and 25 deaths have been reported in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea since 3 July, as the deadly virus continues to spread in families, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the UN agency said that the latest figures from health ministries in the three countries showed a total of 844 cases including 518 deaths in the epidemic that began in February.<\/p>\n<p>Guinea&#8217;s ministry reported two deaths since 3 July but no new cases in the past week, the WHO said, calling the situation in the affected region of West Africa a &#8220;mixed picture&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Liberia News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2014\/jul\/08\/ebola-50-new-cases-25-deaths-sierra-leone-liberia-guinea\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>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>Fifty new cases of Ebola and 25 deaths have been reported in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea since 3 July, as the deadly virus continues to spread in families, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Tuesday. In a statement, the UN agency said that the latest figures from health ministries in the three countries [&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":[1118,1086,1109],"tags":[258,256,2394,1111,4715,4712,1107,257,4714,254,4692,447,1326],"class_list":["post-3816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-guinea","category-liberia","category-sierra-leone","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-deadly-virus","tag-ebola","tag-guinea","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-sierra-leone","tag-south-africa-today","tag-west-africa","tag-who","tag-world-health-organisation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3816","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=3816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3816\/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=3816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}