{"id":73223,"date":"2014-12-11T07:05:10","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T07:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=73223"},"modified":"2014-12-10T23:22:48","modified_gmt":"2014-12-10T23:22:48","slug":"ebola-health-workers-win-time-magazines-person-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=73223","title":{"rendered":"Ebola health workers win Time magazine\u2019s &#8216;Person of the Year&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Time magazine\u2019s 2014 &#8216;Person of the Year&#8217; is Ebola healthcare workers in West Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The runner-ups included Ferguson protesters, Russian President Vladimir Putin and founder of Alibaba, Jack Ma.<\/p>\n<p>According to the BBC, the Editor of Time Magazine, Nancy Gibbs said: &#8220;The rest of the world can sleep at night because a group of men and women are willing to stand and fight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;GxIrFm70VX2Z60WjSAo5cuzsoGelW4i6&#8221;]The recognition comes at a time when three West African nations; Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea are struggling to contain and stop the spread of the deadly Ebola Virus Disease.<\/p>\n<p>Although three countries are battling with the disease, nations such as Italy and the United States of America (USA) have recorded a few cases.<\/p>\n<p>The spread of the virus which began in March 2014 in Guinea has claimed over 6,000 including about 349 health workers according to statistics from the World Health Organization (WHO).<\/p>\n<p>Time Magazines \u2018Person of the Year\u2019 is an annual issue of the magazine which features news makers of the year.<\/p>\n<p>It features and profiles a person, group, idea or object that has done the most to influence the events of the year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Efua Idan Osam\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<br \/>\n<a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/osamidan\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @osamidan<\/a><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time magazine\u2019s 2014 &#8216;Person of the Year&#8217; is Ebola healthcare workers in West Africa. The runner-ups included Ferguson protesters, Russian President Vladimir Putin and founder of Alibaba, Jack Ma. According to the BBC, the Editor of Time Magazine, Nancy Gibbs said: &#8220;The rest of the world can sleep at night because a group of men [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":73224,"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":[2],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-73223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","tag-papa-owusu-ankomah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73223","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=73223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/73224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}