{"id":4277,"date":"2014-07-20T11:01:38","date_gmt":"2014-07-20T04:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=4277"},"modified":"2014-07-20T11:01:51","modified_gmt":"2014-07-20T04:01:51","slug":"sierra-leone-hand-sanitizer-does-not-prevent-ebola-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/sierra-leone-hand-sanitizer-does-not-prevent-ebola-virus\/","title":{"rendered":"Sierra Leone: Hand sanitizer does not prevent Ebola virus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sierra Leone &#8211; The Health Communication Officer, Directorate of Disease Prevention and Control in the Ministry of Health and Sanitation, Harold Thomas, has said, hand sanitizers does not prevent Ebola virus\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas said the sanitizer kills 99.9 % bacteria and not virus, adding that bacteria is different from virus.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking during a Media Orientation on Ebola yesterday at the Grassroot Gender Empowerment Centre at John Street,Freetown, he said the use of hand sanitizers is good but does not protect against the Ebola virus&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Sierra Leone News\" href=\"http:\/\/awoko.org\/2014\/07\/17\/sierra-leone-news-hand-sanitizer-does-not-prevent-ebola-virus-harold-thomas\/\" 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>Sierra Leone &#8211; The Health Communication Officer, Directorate of Disease Prevention and Control in the Ministry of Health and Sanitation, Harold Thomas, has said, hand sanitizers does not prevent Ebola virus\u201d. Thomas said the sanitizer kills 99.9 % bacteria and not virus, adding that bacteria is different from virus. Speaking during a Media Orientation on [&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":[1109],"tags":[258,256,1111,1110,2965,2964,257,4714,1135,254,4692],"class_list":["post-4277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sierra-leone","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ebola","tag-ebola-virus","tag-hand-sanitizers-does-not-prevent-ebola-virus","tag-harold-thomas","tag-news","tag-sierra-leone","tag-sierra-leone-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-west-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4277","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=4277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4277\/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=4277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}