{"id":127669,"date":"2015-06-24T06:00:23","date_gmt":"2015-06-24T06:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=127669"},"modified":"2015-06-23T20:37:09","modified_gmt":"2015-06-23T20:37:09","slug":"sierra-leone-records-new-cases-of-ebola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=127669","title":{"rendered":"Sierra Leone records new cases of Ebola"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks after Sierra Leone\u2019s \u00a0capital, Freetown was thought to be free of the Ebola disease, two new cases have been recorded.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;Pj9cLvzBGBNVV95yZ2uFr7B0E8d0X3QQ&#8221;]The two cases were found in the Freetown slum of Magazine.<\/p>\n<p>After a year of battling with the deadliest outbreak of Ebola, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared Liberia Ebola free in May 2015, after 42 days without a new case of the virus.<\/p>\n<p>The virus since March 2014 infected thousands and killed more than 11,000 people in the three most affected West African countries, Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone.<\/p>\n<p>There is great concern and anxiety among the authorities and residents since \u00a0all Ebola quarantine facilities in Freetown had been closed.<\/p>\n<p>According to health officials, there is a high possibility of further infections since the new cases emanated from a densely populated slum.<\/p>\n<p>Presently, clinical trials are ongoing to find a vaccine for the Ebola virus.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks after Sierra Leone\u2019s \u00a0capital, Freetown was thought to be free of the Ebola disease, two new cases have been recorded. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;Pj9cLvzBGBNVV95yZ2uFr7B0E8d0X3QQ&#8221;]The two cases were found in the Freetown slum of Magazine. After a year of battling with the deadliest outbreak of Ebola, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared Liberia Ebola free [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":59380,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[15,14],"class_list":["post-127669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-chinese","tag-papa-owusu-ankomah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=127669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/59380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}