{"id":4534,"date":"2014-07-29T21:09:31","date_gmt":"2014-07-29T14:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=4534"},"modified":"2014-07-29T21:09:45","modified_gmt":"2014-07-29T14:09:45","slug":"fear-of-ebola-breeds-a-terror-of-physicians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/guinea\/fear-of-ebola-breeds-a-terror-of-physicians\/","title":{"rendered":"Fear of Ebola Breeds a Terror of Physicians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KOLO BENGOU, Guinea \u2014 Eight youths, some armed with slingshots and machetes, stood warily alongside a rutted dirt road at an opening in the high reeds, the path to the village of Kolo Bengou. The deadly Ebola virus is believed to have infected several people in the village, and the youths were blocking the path to prevent health workers from entering.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t want any visitors,\u201d said their leader, Faya Iroundouno, 17, president of Kolo Bengou\u2019s youth league. \u201cWe don\u2019t want any contact with anyone.\u201d The others nodded in agreement and fiddled with their slingshots.<\/p>\n<p>Singling out the international aid group Doctors Without Borders, Mr. Iroundouno continued, \u201cWherever those people have passed, the communities have been hit by illness.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Guinea News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/07\/28\/world\/africa\/ebola-epidemic-west-africa-guinea.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Guinea\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/guinea\/\">Guinea<\/a> News<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOLO BENGOU, Guinea \u2014 Eight youths, some armed with slingshots and machetes, stood warily alongside a rutted dirt road at an opening in the high reeds, the path to the village of Kolo Bengou. The deadly Ebola virus is believed to have infected several people in the village, and the youths were blocking the path [&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":[1118],"tags":[258,256,3296,1447,1111,1110,4715,1124,3300,257,3301,254,4692],"class_list":["post-4534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-guinea","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-deadly-ebola-virus","tag-doctors-without-borders","tag-ebola","tag-ebola-virus","tag-guinea","tag-guinea-news","tag-kolo-bengou","tag-news","tag-prevent-health-workers-from-entering","tag-south-africa-today","tag-west-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4534","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=4534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4534\/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=4534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}