{"id":3444,"date":"2015-01-22T20:37:15","date_gmt":"2015-01-22T20:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alchealth.com\/news\/?p=3444"},"modified":"2015-01-22T20:37:15","modified_gmt":"2015-01-22T20:37:15","slug":"falling-ebola-cases-turning-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alchealth.com\/news\/falling-ebola-cases-turning-point\/","title":{"rendered":"Falling Ebola cases turning point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There has been a &#8220;turning point&#8221; in the Ebola crisis, with cases falling in the three affected countries, World Health Organization officials say.<\/p>\n<p>Just eight cases were detected in Liberia in the last week down from a peak of 500-a-week in September. Guinea and Sierra Leone have also seen falls.<\/p>\n<p>The WHO said the figures were the &#8220;most promising&#8221; since the outbreak started.<\/p>\n<p>But it continues to urge caution, and to highlight the need to find those who had contact with Ebola patients.<\/p>\n<p>The largest outbreak of Ebola in human history has infected 21,724 people and killed 8,641 &#8211; largely in just three countries, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea.<\/p>\n<p>SOURCE : BBC News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There has been a &#8220;turning point&#8221; in the Ebola crisis, with cases falling in the three affected countries, World Health Organization officials say. Just eight cases were detected in Liberia in the last week down from a peak of 500-a-week in September. Guinea and Sierra Leone have also seen falls. The WHO said the figures &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alchealth.com\/news\/falling-ebola-cases-turning-point\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Falling Ebola cases turning point<\/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-3444","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\/3444","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=3444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alchealth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alchealth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alchealth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alchealth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}