{"id":48009,"date":"2015-01-22T01:12:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-22T01:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/reuters_ebola_end_game_in_sight_as_new_cases_fall_sharply_in_sierra_leone\/"},"modified":"2015-01-22T01:12:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-22T01:12:00","slug":"reuters_ebola_end_game_in_sight_as_new_cases_fall_sharply_in_sierra_leone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48009","title":{"rendered":"(Reuters) Ebola end game in sight as new cases fall sharply in Sierra Leone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A military-style operation to fight Ebola in Sierra Leone has helped to dramatically reduce new cases, in what health officials say is a major step towards defeating the deadly disease.<\/p>\n<p>Since it was launched about one month ago, the operation has doubled the number of ambulances for patients in the densely populated west of Sierra Leone, the worst-affected country where more than 3,000 people have died.<\/p>\n<p>Police halt vehicles at checkpoints in the tumble-down streets to check temperatures, while posters proclaim in the local Krio language: &#8220;Togeda we go stop ebola.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/af.reuters.com\/article\/topNews\/idAFKBN0KU1C920150121\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A military-style operation to fight Ebola in Sierra Leone has helped to dramatically reduce new cases, in what health officials say is a major step towards defeating the deadly disease. Since it was launched about one month ago, the operation<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48009\">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":[39,50,202,104,544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-africa","category-health-medicine","category-sierra-leone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48009","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=48009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}