{"id":4898,"date":"2014-08-20T14:49:07","date_gmt":"2014-08-20T07:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=4898"},"modified":"2014-08-20T14:49:19","modified_gmt":"2014-08-20T07:49:19","slug":"nigeria-scrambles-to-contain-ebola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-scrambles-to-contain-ebola\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria scrambles to contain Ebola"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAGOS, Nigeria \u2014 Africa&#8217;s most populous country is scrambling to avoid the fate of nearby nations that have failed to prevent the spread of the deadly Ebola virus.<\/p>\n<p>An epidemic could devastate Nigeria&#8217;s economy and overrun its meager health facilities. That&#8217;s why the country has taken drastic measures to contain the spread of Ebola since Liberian-American Patrick Sawyer brought the virus to Lagos on a flight from Liberia on July 20&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Nigeria News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/world\/2014\/08\/19\/ebola-nigeria-africa\/14297767\/\" 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>LAGOS, Nigeria \u2014 Africa&#8217;s most populous country is scrambling to avoid the fate of nearby nations that have failed to prevent the spread of the deadly Ebola virus. An epidemic could devastate Nigeria&#8217;s economy and overrun its meager health facilities. That&#8217;s why the country has taken drastic measures to contain the spread of Ebola since [&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":[258,256,3296,1111,1110,257,4687,393,254,3658,4692],"class_list":["post-4898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-deadly-ebola-virus","tag-ebola","tag-ebola-virus","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-spread-of-ebola","tag-west-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4898","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=4898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4898\/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=4898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}