{"id":96699,"date":"2016-05-20T06:34:59","date_gmt":"2016-05-20T14:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=96699"},"modified":"2016-05-20T06:34:59","modified_gmt":"2016-05-20T14:34:59","slug":"john-rivers-notice-that-everyone-just-assumes-africa-cant-deal-with-the-problem-themselves-because-they-cant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=96699","title":{"rendered":"John Rivers: &#8216;Notice that everyone just assumes Africa can&#8217;t deal with the problem themselves. Because they can&#8217;t.&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/health\/2016\/05\/20\/yellow-fever-outbreaks-in-africa-need-action-mass-vaccination-who.html\">Yellow fever outbreaks in Africa need action, mass vaccination: WHO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Outbreaks of deadly yellow fever in Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo do not constitute a global health emergency but require stepped-up control measures and mass vaccination, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The disease, which has a high fatality rate, has already spread to Kenya and China and there is an unrelated outbreak in Uganda, generating fears of the mosquito-borne disease jumping to sprawling cities in Asia and Africa.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This can be a devastating disease with rapid spread particularly in urban areas,&#8221; Dr. Bruce Aylward, WHO executive director of outbreaks and health emergencies, said after its emergency committee on yellow fever held a first meeting.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The big push really is around surveillance and laboratory diagnostics capacity so that if people start turning yellow and dying, you get diagnostics rapidly and vaccination,&#8221; Aylward told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>The more than 2,400 suspect cases and 300 deaths in just four months in Angola &#8220;reinforced the potentially explosive nature of this disease and the risk internationally&#8221;, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yellow fever outbreaks in Africa need action, mass vaccination: WHO Outbreaks of deadly yellow fever in Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo do not constitute a global health emergency but require stepped-up control measures and mass vaccination, the World &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=96699\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12477],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96700,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96699\/revisions\/96700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}