{"id":46459,"date":"2014-10-20T15:45:42","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T15:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/nigeria_is_ebola-free_heres_what_they_did_right\/"},"modified":"2014-10-20T15:45:42","modified_gmt":"2014-10-20T15:45:42","slug":"nigeria_is_ebola-free_heres_what_they_did_right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46459","title":{"rendered":"(Time) Nigeria Is Ebola-Free: Here\u2019s What They Did Right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The World Health Organization declared Nigeria free of Ebola on Monday, a containment victory in an outbreak that has stymied other countries\u2019 response efforts.<\/p>\n<p>The milestone came around 11 a.m. local time, or 6 a.m., E.T. The outbreak has killed more than 4,500 in West Africa is remains unchecked in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, so Nigeria is by no means immune to another outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s possible to control Ebola. It\u2019s possible to defeat Ebola. We\u2019ve seen it here in Nigeria,\u201d\u009d Nigerian Minister of Health Onyebuchi Chukwu told TIME. \u201cIf any cases emerge in the future, it will be considered\u201d\u201dby international standards\u201d\u201da separate outbreak. If that happens, Nigeria will be ready and able to confront it exactly as we have done with this outbreak.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/3522984\/ebola-nigeria-who\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Health Organization declared Nigeria free of Ebola on Monday, a containment victory in an outbreak that has stymied other countries\u2019 response efforts. The milestone came around 11 a.m. local time, or 6 a.m., E.T. The outbreak has killed<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46459\">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":[39,50,202,104,327],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-africa","category-health-medicine","category-nigeria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46459","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=46459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}