{"id":5312,"date":"2014-09-23T14:32:51","date_gmt":"2014-09-23T07:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=5312"},"modified":"2014-09-23T14:32:51","modified_gmt":"2014-09-23T07:32:51","slug":"africa-ebola-contained-in-senegal-and-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/africa-ebola-contained-in-senegal-and-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa Ebola &#8216;contained in Senegal and Nigeria&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The World Health Organisation (WHO) has said the Ebola epidemic that has killed 2,811 in West Africa has been contained in Senegal and Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>The UN health agency said on Monday that Senegal had not reported any new cases of the virus since the first case was reported August 29, while the last case reported in Nigeria was on September 8.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On the whole, the outbreaks in Senegal and Nigeria are pretty much contained,&#8221; a WHO statement said.<\/p>\n<p>The incubation period for Ebola is 21 days, and double that time must pass without any new cases arising before a country can be deemed transmission-free&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Nigeria News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/africa\/2014\/09\/ebola-contained-senegal-nigeria-201492302548319863.html\" 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>The World Health Organisation (WHO) has said the Ebola epidemic that has killed 2,811 in West Africa has been contained in Senegal and Nigeria. The UN health agency said on Monday that Senegal had not reported any new cases of the virus since the first case was reported August 29, while the last case reported [&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":[258,256,1111,1119,4155,257,4687,393,3969,254,4154,4692,447,1326],"class_list":["post-5312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ebola","tag-ebola-epidemic","tag-incubation-period-for-ebola-is-21-days","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-senegal","tag-south-africa-today","tag-un-health-agency","tag-west-africa","tag-who","tag-world-health-organisation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5312","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=5312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5312\/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=5312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}