{"id":95969,"date":"2015-03-03T08:23:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-03T08:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=95969"},"modified":"2015-03-03T08:32:01","modified_gmt":"2015-03-03T08:32:01","slug":"imf-to-give-sierra-leone-80m-to-fight-ebola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=95969","title":{"rendered":"IMF to give Sierra Leone $80m to fight Ebola"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"introduction\">Sierra Leone is expecting to receive more than $ 80m to help the country end the Ebola outbreak.<\/p>\n<p class=\"introduction\">The BBC reports that the IMF has pledged a\u00a0$187m financial aid package for Sierra Leone to support the country&#8217;s ailing economy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"introduction\">Nearly 10,000 people have died in the outbreak, with the vast majority in Guiea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.<\/p>\n<p id=\"story_continues_1\" class=\"introduction\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;4H554fEEwVihfsanndC5TricON3sE0r1&#8243;]On Sunday, the BBC reported that the Vice President of Sierra Leone <a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/03\/01\/ebola-outbreak-sierra-leone-vice-president-quarantined\/#sthash.zNPpHHa9.2xLiQNrf.dpbs\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong>put himself into quarantine<\/strong> <\/span><\/a>after one\u00a0of\u00a0his bodyguards died from the deadly disease.<\/p>\n<p class=\"introduction\">Samuel Sam-Sumana said he would stay out of contact with others for 21 days as a precaution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"introduction\">There was optimism the virus was on the decline in Sierra Leone at the end of last year but there has been a recent increase in confirmed cases.<\/p>\n<p class=\"introduction\">Of 99 cases recorded in the region in the week beginning 16 February, 63 were in Sierra Leone, according to the World Health Organization.<\/p>\n<p class=\"introduction\"><strong>Symptoms of Ebola<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"introduction\">High Fever<\/p>\n<p class=\"introduction\">Bleeding<\/p>\n<p class=\"introduction\">Central Nervous System damage<\/p>\n<p class=\"introduction\"><strong>Facts About Ebola<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Spread by body fluids, such as blood and saliva<\/li>\n<li>Fatality rate can reach 90% &#8211; but current outbreak has mortality rate of between 54% and 62%<\/li>\n<li>Incubation period is two to 21 days<\/li>\n<li>No proven vaccine or cure<\/li>\n<li>Supportive care such as rehydrating patients who have diarrhoea and vomiting can help recovery<\/li>\n<li>Fruit bats, a delicacy for some West Africans, are considered to be virus&#8217;s natural host<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Marian Efe Ansah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sierra Leone is expecting to receive more than $ 80m to help the country end the Ebola outbreak. The BBC reports that the IMF has pledged a\u00a0$187m financial aid package for Sierra Leone to support the country&#8217;s ailing economy. Nearly 10,000 people have died in the outbreak, with the vast majority in Guiea, Liberia and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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":[14],"class_list":["post-95969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-papa-owusu-ankomah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95969","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=95969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95969\/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=95969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}