{"id":53219,"date":"2023-11-24T08:32:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-24T08:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=53219"},"modified":"2023-11-24T08:32:00","modified_gmt":"2023-11-24T08:32:00","slug":"west-africa-responds-to-huge-diphtheria-outbreaks-by-targeting-unvaccinated-populations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2023\/11\/24\/west-africa-responds-to-huge-diphtheria-outbreaks-by-targeting-unvaccinated-populations\/","title":{"rendered":"West Africa responds to huge diphtheria outbreaks by targeting unvaccinated populations"},"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-24640\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Nigeria-300x237.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Nigeria-300x237.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Nigeria-770x608.jpg 770w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Nigeria-1024x808.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Nigeria-500x395.jpg 500w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Nigeria-360x284.jpg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Nigeria.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Authorities in several\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/west-africa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">West African<\/a> countries are trying to manage their huge diphtheria outbreaks, including in Nigeria where a top health official said Thursday that millions are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/other\/west-africa-responds-to-huge-diphtheria-outbreaks-by-targeting-unvaccinated-populations\/ar-AA1kqN6M?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=LCTS&amp;cvid=451a65dfa7ef46af86c314ad9e113cc8&amp;ei=73\">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>Authorities in several\u00a0West African countries are trying to manage their huge diphtheria outbreaks, including in Nigeria where a top health official said&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40304,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-53219","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\/12\/west-africa.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53219","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=53219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53220,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53219\/revisions\/53220"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}