{"id":4491,"date":"2014-07-26T17:28:50","date_gmt":"2014-07-26T10:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=4491"},"modified":"2014-07-26T17:29:06","modified_gmt":"2014-07-26T10:29:06","slug":"sierra-leone-hunts-ebola-patient-kidnapped-in-freetown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/sierra-leone-hunts-ebola-patient-kidnapped-in-freetown\/","title":{"rendered":"Sierra Leone hunts Ebola patient kidnapped in Freetown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A hunt has been launched in Sierra Leone&#8217;s capital, Freetown, for a woman with Ebola who was forcibly removed from hospital by her relatives.<\/p>\n<p>Radio stations around the country are appealing for help to find the 32-year-old who is being described as a &#8220;risk to all&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>She is the first Freetown resident to have tested positive for the virus.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Nigeria&#8217;s health minister has confirmed that a Liberian man has died of Ebola in Lagos.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Reuters news agency, he collapsed on arrival in Lagos on Sunday and was taken from the airport and put in quarantine at a hospital in the Nigerian city.<\/p>\n<p>Since February, more than 660 people have died of Ebola in West Africa &#8211; the world&#8217;s deadliest outbreak to date&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Sierra Leone News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-28485041\" 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>A hunt has been launched in Sierra Leone&#8217;s capital, Freetown, for a woman with Ebola who was forcibly removed from hospital by her relatives. Radio stations around the country are appealing for help to find the 32-year-old who is being described as a &#8220;risk to all&#8221;. She is the first Freetown resident to have tested [&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":[258,256,1111,1359,257,4714,1135,254,3259,4692],"class_list":["post-4491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sierra-leone","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ebola","tag-freetown","tag-news","tag-sierra-leone","tag-sierra-leone-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tested-positive-for-the-virus","tag-west-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4491","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=4491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4491\/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=4491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}