{"id":135532,"date":"2015-07-17T16:22:10","date_gmt":"2015-07-17T16:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=135532"},"modified":"2015-07-17T16:22:10","modified_gmt":"2015-07-17T16:22:10","slug":"bird-flu-report-ban-on-the-sale-of-live-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=135532","title":{"rendered":"Bird Flu Report: Ban on the sale of live birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is presently an outbreak of bird flu in Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the measures to prevent the spread of the disease, the Ministry of Food and Agriculture has placed a ban on the sale and movement of live poultry.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the ban, some vendors are still doing brisk business in the capital.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Citi News\u2019<\/strong> Kojo Agyeman visited the Kantamanto poultry market to interact with the vendors and their customers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Click on audio file to listen to the report<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/215147914&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Kojo Agyeman\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is presently an outbreak of bird flu in Ghana. As part of the measures to prevent the spread of the disease, the Ministry of Food and Agriculture has placed a ban on the sale and movement of live poultry. Despite the ban, some vendors are still doing brisk business in the capital. Citi News\u2019 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":135533,"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":[38,17],"class_list":["post-135532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-wassa-akropong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135532","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=135532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/135533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}