{"id":5189,"date":"2014-09-10T10:01:22","date_gmt":"2014-09-10T03:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=5189"},"modified":"2014-09-10T10:01:37","modified_gmt":"2014-09-10T03:01:37","slug":"ebola-outbreak-in-sierra-leone-infects-who-doctor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/ebola-outbreak-in-sierra-leone-infects-who-doctor\/","title":{"rendered":"Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone infects WHO doctor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A doctor with the World Health Organization in Sierra Leone has tested positive for the Ebola virus.<\/p>\n<p>The physician is in stable condition in Freetown and will be relocated shortly, the UN health agency said in a statement Monday.<\/p>\n<p>To maintain patient confidentiality, WHO spokeswoman Nyka Alexander in Freetown said the agency won&#8217;t provide details on nationality or where the person is going for treatment.<\/p>\n<p>The doctor was working at the Ebola treatment centre in the Kenema Government Hospital, which is run by Sierra Leone&#8217;s health ministry.<\/p>\n<p>The physician had symptoms on Saturday that were confirmed yesterday as Ebola, and the evacuation is scheduled for today, Alexander said&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Sierra Leone News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/health\/ebola-outbreak-in-sierra-leone-infects-who-doctor-1.2759470\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Sierra Leone\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/\">Sierra Leone<\/a> News<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A doctor with the World Health Organization in Sierra Leone has tested positive for the Ebola virus. The physician is in stable condition in Freetown and will be relocated shortly, the UN health agency said in a statement Monday. To maintain patient confidentiality, WHO spokeswoman Nyka Alexander in Freetown said the agency won&#8217;t provide details [&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":[1109],"tags":[258,256,1111,1110,1359,3967,257,4714,1135,254,1112,4692,447,446],"class_list":["post-5189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sierra-leone","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ebola","tag-ebola-virus","tag-freetown","tag-kenema-government-hospital","tag-news","tag-sierra-leone","tag-sierra-leone-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-virus","tag-west-africa","tag-who","tag-world-health-organization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5189","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=5189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5189\/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=5189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}