{"id":3322,"date":"2014-10-21T16:15:30","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T15:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alchealth.com\/news\/?p=3322"},"modified":"2014-10-21T17:33:50","modified_gmt":"2014-10-21T16:33:50","slug":"nigeria-officially-declared-free-of-ebola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alchealth.com\/news\/nigeria-officially-declared-free-of-ebola\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria officially declared free of Ebola"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The WHO (World Health Organisation) has declared Nigeria officially free of Ebola after six weeks with no new cases reported, adding that this was a \u2018spectacular success story\u2019. The country\u2019s health authority was praised for its swift reaction when a Liberian diplomat was found to be infected after bringing the disease into the country during July.<\/p>\n<p>The Ebola outbreak has now killed more than 4,500 people in West Africa, mostly in Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone where an estimated 70% of those infected have died.<\/p>\n<p>The WHO officially declared Senegal Ebola-free on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The WHO (World Health Organisation) has declared Nigeria officially free of Ebola after six weeks with no new cases reported, adding that this was a \u2018spectacular success story\u2019. The country\u2019s health authority was praised for its swift reaction when a Liberian diplomat was found to be infected after bringing the disease into the country during &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alchealth.com\/news\/nigeria-officially-declared-free-of-ebola\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nigeria officially declared free of Ebola<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,24,6,30,23,25,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alc-health-news","category-alc-international-health-insurance-news","category-alc-travel-news","category-expat-alert","category-expat-global-health-news","category-global-health-news","category-global-health-options"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alchealth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alchealth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alchealth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alchealth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alchealth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alchealth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alchealth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alchealth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alchealth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}