{"id":72783,"date":"2025-03-01T18:54:59","date_gmt":"2025-03-01T18:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=72783"},"modified":"2025-03-01T18:54:59","modified_gmt":"2025-03-01T18:54:59","slug":"drc-malaria-cited-as-cause-of-deaths-and-infections-in-equateur-province","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/03\/01\/drc-malaria-cited-as-cause-of-deaths-and-infections-in-equateur-province\/","title":{"rendered":"DRC: Malaria cited as cause of deaths, and infections in Equateur province"},"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 decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1zYoqB.img?w=534&amp;h=300&amp;m=6\" alt=\"Two WHO aid workers prepare to vaccinate other health workers from the DRC, suspected of being infected with the ebola disease, Wednesday, May 30, 2018, in Mbandaka, Congo.\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>A false alarm. Dozens of deaths and hundreds of cases which sparked panic in Congo&#8217;s Equateur province have been attributed to malaria. Initial suspicions had pointed to a mystery disease. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/other\/drc-malaria-cited-as-cause-of-deaths-and-infections-in-equateur-province\/ar-AA1zYt6q?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=0e3514efb9ff40b28775bad63baea1f9&amp;ei=57\">Read More<\/a><\/strong><\/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 false alarm. Dozens of deaths and hundreds of cases which sparked panic in Congo&#8217;s Equateur province have been attributed to malaria&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-72783","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\/2025\/02\/DRC-illness.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72783","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=72783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72784,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72783\/revisions\/72784"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}