{"id":46318,"date":"2014-10-11T19:38:14","date_gmt":"2014-10-11T19:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/cdc_ebola_could_infect_1-4_million_in_liberia_and_sierra_leone_by_end_of_ja\/"},"modified":"2014-10-11T19:38:14","modified_gmt":"2014-10-11T19:38:14","slug":"cdc_ebola_could_infect_1-4_million_in_liberia_and_sierra_leone_by_end_of_ja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46318","title":{"rendered":"CDC: Ebola could infect 1.4 million in Liberia and Sierra Leone by end of January"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ebola epidemic in West Africa, already ghastly, could get worse by orders of magnitude, killing hundreds of thousands of people and embedding itself in the human population for years to come, according to two worst-case scenarios from scientists studying the historic outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>The virus could potentially infect 1.4 million people in Liberia and Sierra Leone by the end of January, according to a statistical forecast by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published Tuesday. That number came just hours after a report in the New England Journal of Medicine warned that the epidemic might never be fully controlled and that the virus could become endemic, crippling civic life in the affected countries and presenting an ongoing threat of spreading elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/health-science\/cdc-ebola-could-infect-14-million-in-west-africa-by-end-of-january-if-trends-continue\/2014\/09\/23\/fc260920-4317-11e4-9a15-137aa0153527_story.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b><u>Update:<\/u><\/b>  The elves also recommend <b><a href=\"https:\/\/anglicanprayer.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/10\/a-closer-look-at-the-latest-numbers-of-ebola-cases-in-w-africa-pray-give-act\" title=\"the latest post on Ebola at Lent &#038; Beyond\">the latest post on Ebola at Lent &#038; Beyond<\/a><\/b>, with a graph showing the cumulative number of cases of Ebola in West Africa.  There are also suggested prayer points, and links to donate to several charities on the frontlines in the Ebola struggle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ebola epidemic in West Africa, already ghastly, could get worse by orders of magnitude, killing hundreds of thousands of people and embedding itself in the human population for years to come, according to two worst-case scenarios from scientists studying<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46318\">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":[39,40,50,202,168,144,119,547,104,524,327,151,544,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-africa","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-foreign-relations","category-globalization","category-guinea","category-health-medicine","category-liberia","category-nigeria","category-politics-in-general","category-sierra-leone","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46318","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=46318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}