{"id":41433,"date":"2023-01-26T07:21:21","date_gmt":"2023-01-26T07:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=41433"},"modified":"2023-01-26T07:21:21","modified_gmt":"2023-01-26T07:21:21","slug":"guinea-worm-disease-could-be-second-ever-human-illness-to-be-eradicated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2023\/01\/26\/guinea-worm-disease-could-be-second-ever-human-illness-to-be-eradicated\/","title":{"rendered":"Guinea worm disease could be second ever human illness to be eradicated"},"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-33950\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Guinea-worm-265x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"265\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Guinea-worm-265x300.jpg 265w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Guinea-worm-360x407.jpg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Guinea-worm.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 265px) 100vw, 265px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The number of cases of a painful and debilitating tropical illness fell last year to a record low, fuelling hopes that it will soon become the second human disease in history to be eradicated. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/jan\/25\/guinea-worm-disease-could-be-second-ever-human-illness-to-be-eradicated\">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>The number of cases of a painful and debilitating tropical illness fell last year to a record low, fuelling hopes that it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33950,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-41433","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\/2022\/01\/Guinea-worm.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41433","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=41433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41434,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41433\/revisions\/41434"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}