{"id":4794,"date":"2014-08-13T14:33:12","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T07:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=4794"},"modified":"2014-08-13T14:33:12","modified_gmt":"2014-08-13T07:33:12","slug":"nigeria-races-to-halt-ebola-spread-in-overcrowded-lagos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-races-to-halt-ebola-spread-in-overcrowded-lagos\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria races to halt Ebola spread in overcrowded Lagos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) &#8211; When Liberian-American Patrick Sawyer collapsed at Lagos airport, he brought Ebola into a potentially ideal place for the deadly virus to spread &#8211; a vast, dirty, overcrowded city where tracing carriers and their contacts is a major problem.<\/p>\n<p>Sawyer&#8217;s arrival last month from Liberia &#8211; which along with Sierra Leone and Guinea lies at the center of an outbreak that has killed more than 1,000 people &#8211; caught authorities in the Nigerian commercial capital unprepared&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Nigeria News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2014\/08\/12\/us-health-ebola-nigeria-insight-idUSKBN0GC1MO20140812\" 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>(Reuters) &#8211; When Liberian-American Patrick Sawyer collapsed at Lagos airport, he brought Ebola into a potentially ideal place for the deadly virus to spread &#8211; a vast, dirty, overcrowded city where tracing carriers and their contacts is a major problem. Sawyer&#8217;s arrival last month from Liberia &#8211; which along with Sierra Leone and Guinea lies [&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":[258,256,1111,2477,3547,257,4687,393,3548,254,4692],"class_list":["post-4794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ebola","tag-lagos","tag-lagos-airport","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-patrick-sawyer","tag-south-africa-today","tag-west-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4794","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=4794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4794\/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=4794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}