{"id":43228,"date":"2014-03-24T17:30:30","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T17:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/afp_guinea_scrambles_to_contain_deadly_ebola_outbreak\/"},"modified":"2014-03-24T17:30:30","modified_gmt":"2014-03-24T17:30:30","slug":"afp_guinea_scrambles_to_contain_deadly_ebola_outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=43228","title":{"rendered":"(AFP) Guinea scrambles to contain deadly Ebola outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aid workers and medics battled Monday to contain west Africa&#8217;s first outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus as tests on suspected cases in Conakry allayed fears that it had spread to the capital.<\/p>\n<p>More than 60 people have died in an outbreak of the virulent virus raging through Guinea&#8217;s southern forests but tests on three haemorrhagic fever cases &#8212; two of them fatal &#8212; in Conakry were negative, the government said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Pasteur Institute in Dakar worked urgently all last night on samples taken from suspected cases here in Conakry which were all negative,&#8221; said Sakoba Keita, the health ministry&#8217;s chief disease prevention officer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/ebola-epidemic-spreads-guineas-capital-173304833.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aid workers and medics battled Monday to contain west Africa&#8217;s first outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus as tests on suspected cases in Conakry allayed fears that it had spread to the capital. More than 60 people have died in<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=43228\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,202,547,104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-africa","category-guinea","category-health-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}