{"id":73064,"date":"2025-03-07T19:57:55","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T19:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=73064"},"modified":"2025-03-07T19:57:55","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T19:57:55","slug":"health-chiefs-issue-alert-as-deadly-ebola-like-illness-lassa-fever-is-discovered-in-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/03\/07\/health-chiefs-issue-alert-as-deadly-ebola-like-illness-lassa-fever-is-discovered-in-the-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Health chiefs issue alert as deadly Ebola-like illness Lassa fever is discovered in the UK"},"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:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2025\/03\/07\/14\/95952471-14473469-image-a-20_1741358242322.jpg\" alt=\"There have been less than a dozen cases of the rodent-borne disease, ever detected in the UK \u2014 with the last recorded in 2022. Pictured,\u00a0health official wears protective gear to empty medical waste used for treating Lassa fever patients in Irrua, midwest Nigeria\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Britain was today rocked by fresh Lassa fever fears after someone travelled to England while positive with the virus.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-14473469\/Lassa-fever-Individual-Ebola-like-virus-travelled-England-UKHSA.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>Britain was today rocked by fresh Lassa fever fears after someone travelled to England while positive with the virus.\u00a0 Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-73064","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\/2024\/05\/Lassa-Fever1.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73064","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=73064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73065,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73064\/revisions\/73065"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}