{"id":4823,"date":"2014-08-15T17:57:01","date_gmt":"2014-08-15T10:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=4823"},"modified":"2014-08-15T17:57:15","modified_gmt":"2014-08-15T10:57:15","slug":"ebola-outbreak-kenya-at-high-risk-warns-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/ebola-outbreak-kenya-at-high-risk-warns-who\/","title":{"rendered":"Ebola outbreak: Kenya at high risk, warns WHO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The World Health Organization (WHO) has classified Kenya as a &#8220;high-risk&#8221; country for the spread of the deadly Ebola virus.<\/p>\n<p>Kenya was vulnerable because it was a major transport hub, with many flights from West Africa, a WHO official said.<\/p>\n<p>This is the most serious warning to date by the WHO that Ebola could spread to East Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The number of people killed by Ebola in West Africa has risen to 1,069, the WHO said in its latest update.<\/p>\n<p>Fifty-six deaths and 128 new cases were reported in the region in the two days to 11 August, it added.<\/p>\n<p>Canada said it would donate up to 1,000 doses of an experimental Ebola vaccine to help fight the outbreak&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Kenya News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-28769678\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Health Organization (WHO) has classified Kenya as a &#8220;high-risk&#8221; country for the spread of the deadly Ebola virus. Kenya was vulnerable because it was a major transport hub, with many flights from West Africa, a WHO official said. This is the most serious warning to date by the WHO that Ebola could spread [&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":[250],"tags":[258,256,4695,1111,1110,4688,430,257,254,447,446],"class_list":["post-4823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-east-africa","tag-ebola","tag-ebola-virus","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-who","tag-world-health-organization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4823","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=4823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4823\/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=4823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}