{"id":4439,"date":"2014-07-25T11:29:14","date_gmt":"2014-07-25T04:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=4439"},"modified":"2014-07-25T11:29:26","modified_gmt":"2014-07-25T04:29:26","slug":"sierra-leones-top-ebola-doctor-gets-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/sierra-leones-top-ebola-doctor-gets-virus\/","title":{"rendered":"Sierra Leone&#8217;s top Ebola doctor gets virus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The head doctor fighting the deadly tropical virus Ebola in Sierra Leone has himself caught the disease, the president&#8217;s office said, as the West African outbreak claimed more victims.<\/p>\n<p>Sheik Umar Khan, a Sierra Leonean virologist credited with treating more than 100 Ebola victims, has been receiving treatment at a ward run by medical charity Doctors Without Borders, a source at the ward told the Reuters news agency on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The 39-year-old, hailed as a &#8220;national hero&#8221; by the health ministry, was leading the fight to control an outbreak that has killed 206 people in the West African country.<\/p>\n<p>Health Minister Miatta Kargbo called Khan a national hero and said she would &#8220;do anything and everything in my power to ensure he survives&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It was not immediately clear how Khan had caught the virus&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Sierra Leone News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/africa\/2014\/07\/sierra-leone-top-ebola-doctor-gets-virus-2014723144534824780.html\" 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>The head doctor fighting the deadly tropical virus Ebola in Sierra Leone has himself caught the disease, the president&#8217;s office said, as the West African outbreak claimed more victims. Sheik Umar Khan, a Sierra Leonean virologist credited with treating more than 100 Ebola victims, has been receiving treatment at a ward run by medical charity [&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":[258,256,1447,1111,2170,1137,257,3174,4714,1135,254,3175,4692],"class_list":["post-4439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sierra-leone","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-doctors-without-borders","tag-ebola","tag-ebola-in-sierra-leone","tag-miatta-kargbo","tag-news","tag-sheik-umar-khan","tag-sierra-leone","tag-sierra-leone-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-virologist","tag-west-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4439","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=4439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4439\/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=4439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}