{"id":3882,"date":"2019-07-19T07:35:42","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T07:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=3882"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:25","slug":"ebola-declared-global-health-emergency-who-appeals-for-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/07\/19\/ebola-declared-global-health-emergency-who-appeals-for-help\/","title":{"rendered":"Ebola Declared Global Health Emergency, WHO Appeals For Help"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><strong>By Daily Nation<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It has\nbeen about a year since an Ebola outbreak was reported in the Democratic\nRepublic of Congo (DRC), and the disease shows no signs of abating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The World\nHealth Organisation (WHO) on Wednesday pressed the panic button, declaring the\noutbreak a \u201cpublic health emergency of international concern\u201d, a rare\ndesignation only used for the gravest epidemics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The WHO,\nhowever, stressed that no country should close its borders or place any\nrestrictions on travel or trade, adding that the risk of the disease spreading\noutside the region was not high.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt is\ntime for the world to take notice and redouble our efforts. We need to work\ntogether in solidarity with the DRC to end this outbreak and build a better\nhealth system,\u201d said WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus in Geneva.\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nation.co.ke\/news\/Ebola-declared-global-health-emergency-\/1056-5201826-7pgo1gz\/index.html\">Read\nmore&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Daily Nation It has been about a year since an Ebola outbreak was reported in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and the disease shows no signs of abating.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}