{"id":4531,"date":"2014-07-29T20:55:31","date_gmt":"2014-07-29T13:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=4531"},"modified":"2014-07-29T20:56:17","modified_gmt":"2014-07-29T13:56:17","slug":"liberia-suspends-football-to-control-the-spread-of-ebola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-suspends-football-to-control-the-spread-of-ebola\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia suspends football to control the spread of Ebola"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liberia has suspended all football activities in an effort to control the spread of the deadly Ebola virus.<\/p>\n<p>There was a risk of infection because football is a contact sport, the football association said.<\/p>\n<p>The number of people killed by the virus in West Africa has now reached 672, the WHO says.<\/p>\n<p>Ebola kills up to 90% of those infected, but patients have a better chance of survival if they receive early treatment.<\/p>\n<p>It spreads through contact with an infected person&#8217;s bodily fluids.<\/p>\n<p>This is the deadliest outbreak ever, with the first case reported in Guinea in February. It then spread to Liberia and Sierra Leone&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Liberia News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-28542577\" 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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liberia has suspended all football activities in an effort to control the spread of the deadly Ebola virus. There was a risk of infection because football is a contact sport, the football association said. The number of people killed by the virus in West Africa has now reached 672, the WHO says. Ebola kills up [&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":[1086],"tags":[258,256,3296,1111,1110,3299,3297,4712,1107,257,254,3298,4692],"class_list":["post-4531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-deadly-ebola-virus","tag-ebola","tag-ebola-virus","tag-football","tag-infected-persons-bodily-fluids","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-suspends-football","tag-west-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4531","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=4531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4531\/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=4531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}