{"id":4441,"date":"2019-08-08T10:32:12","date_gmt":"2019-08-08T07:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=4441"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:27","slug":"1800-dead-as-malaria-epidemic-rages-in-burundi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/08\/08\/1800-dead-as-malaria-epidemic-rages-in-burundi\/","title":{"rendered":"1,800 Dead As Malaria \u2018Epidemic\u2019 Rages In Burundi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>By\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.capitalfm.co.ke\/news\/author\/afp12327\/\"><strong><em>AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Malaria has killed more than 1,800 people in Burundi this year, the UN\u2019s humanitarian agency says, a death toll rivaling a deadly Ebola outbreak in the neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In its latest situation report, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said 5.7 million cases of malaria had been recorded in Burundi in 2019 \u2013 a figure roughly equal to half its entire population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of those cases, a total of 1,801\ndied from the mosquito-borne disease in Burundi between January 1 and July 21,\nOCHA said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The tiny country of 11 million\npeople in the African Great Lakes region has still not declared a national\nemergency, despite OCHA saying the outbreak crossed \u201cepidemic proportions\u201d in\nMay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe national malaria outbreak\nresponse plan, which is currently being validated, has highlighted a lack of\nhuman, logistical and financial resources for effective response,\u201d OCHA said in\nits latest weekly bulletin on humanitarian emergencies\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.capitalfm.co.ke\/news\/2019\/08\/1800-dead-as-malaria-epidemic-rages-in-burundi-un\/\">Read\nmore&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE Malaria has killed more than 1,800 people in Burundi this year, the UN\u2019s humanitarian agency says, a death toll rivaling a deadly Ebola outbreak in the neighboring&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4442,"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-4441","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\/4441","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=4441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}