{"id":34183,"date":"2022-02-11T16:54:30","date_gmt":"2022-02-11T16:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=34183"},"modified":"2022-02-11T16:54:30","modified_gmt":"2022-02-11T16:54:30","slug":"england-records-its-first-ever-lassa-fever-death-hospitalised-patient-in-bedfordshire-succumbs-to-eye-bleeding-virus-after-becoming-third-member-of-family-to-test-positive-following-trip-to-west-afri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2022\/02\/11\/england-records-its-first-ever-lassa-fever-death-hospitalised-patient-in-bedfordshire-succumbs-to-eye-bleeding-virus-after-becoming-third-member-of-family-to-test-positive-following-trip-to-west-afri\/","title":{"rendered":"England records its first ever Lassa fever death: Hospitalised patient in Bedfordshire succumbs to eye-bleeding virus after becoming third member of family to test positive following trip to West Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-33380\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/lassa-fever-300x169.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/lassa-fever-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/lassa-fever-360x203.png 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/lassa-fever.png 756w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>A person in Bedfordshire has become the first in England to die after catching Lassa fever, the UK Health Security Agency announced today.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10503063\/England-records-Lassa-fever-death.html\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>A person in Bedfordshire has become the first in England to die after catching Lassa fever, the UK Health Security Agency announced&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33380,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-34183","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/lassa-fever.png","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34184,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34183\/revisions\/34184"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}