{"id":4487,"date":"2014-07-26T17:21:57","date_gmt":"2014-07-26T10:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=4487"},"modified":"2014-07-26T17:22:08","modified_gmt":"2014-07-26T10:22:08","slug":"ebola-reaches-nigeria-with-death-of-liberian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/ebola-reaches-nigeria-with-death-of-liberian\/","title":{"rendered":"Ebola reaches Nigeria with death of Liberian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Liberian national who died in quarantine in Lagos was suffering from the deadly virus Ebola, Nigerian officials said, confirming that the worst-ever outbreak of the virus has reached Africa&#8217;s most populous country.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria&#8217;s health minister, Onyebuchi Chukwu, on Friday said the &#8220;patient was subjected to thorough medical tests &#8230; which confirmed the virus of Ebola,&#8221; as the cause of death.<\/p>\n<p>The man, who collapsed on arrival at the airport on Thursday, was kept in isolation and had not entered the city, the official earlier told the Reuters news agency&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Nigeria News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/africa\/2014\/07\/suspected-ebola-victim-dies-nigeria-2014725150289698.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Liberian national who died in quarantine in Lagos was suffering from the deadly virus Ebola, Nigerian officials said, confirming that the worst-ever outbreak of the virus has reached Africa&#8217;s most populous country. Nigeria&#8217;s health minister, Onyebuchi Chukwu, on Friday said the &#8220;patient was subjected to thorough medical tests &#8230; which confirmed the virus of [&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":[249],"tags":[258,256,3257,1110,257,4687,393,3258,254,4692],"class_list":["post-4487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-deadly-virus-ebola","tag-ebola-virus","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-onyebuchi-chukwu","tag-south-africa-today","tag-west-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4487","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=4487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4487\/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=4487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}