{"id":4797,"date":"2014-08-13T14:52:31","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T07:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=4797"},"modified":"2014-08-13T14:52:43","modified_gmt":"2014-08-13T07:52:43","slug":"us-to-send-untested-ebola-drug-to-liberia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/us-to-send-untested-ebola-drug-to-liberia\/","title":{"rendered":"US &#8216;to send&#8217; untested Ebola drug to Liberia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liberia has said it will receive doses of an experimental Ebola drug to treat infected doctors in the West African country.<\/p>\n<p>A statement, published on the Liberian presidency&#8217;s website on Monday, said the United States had approved a request from Liberia&#8217;s President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf to ship the medicine, ZMapp, after a direct appeal to US President Barack Obama on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>However, a spokesperson for the US Health and Human Services (HHS) Department said US authorities had simply assisted in connecting the Liberian government with the drug&#8217;s manufacturer&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Liberia News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/africa\/2014\/08\/us-send-untested-ebola-drug-liberia-201481212338850440.html\" 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 said it will receive doses of an experimental Ebola drug to treat infected doctors in the West African country. A statement, published on the Liberian presidency&#8217;s website on Monday, said the United States had approved a request from Liberia&#8217;s President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf to ship the medicine, ZMapp, after a direct appeal to [&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":[258,256,1111,3550,1134,3549,3553,4712,1107,257,254,3552,4692,3551],"class_list":["post-4797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ebola","tag-ebola-drug","tag-ellen-johnson-sirleaf","tag-experimental-ebola-drug","tag-hhs","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-us-health-and-human-services","tag-west-africa","tag-zmapp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4797","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=4797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4797\/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=4797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}