{"id":87083,"date":"2026-03-29T16:20:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T16:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=87083"},"modified":"2026-03-29T16:20:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T16:20:28","slug":"widow-fears-husband-52-was-cape-verde-outbreaks-fifth-victim-after-gastric-illness-on-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/03\/29\/widow-fears-husband-52-was-cape-verde-outbreaks-fifth-victim-after-gastric-illness-on-holiday\/","title":{"rendered":"Widow fears husband, 52, was &#8216;Cape Verde outbreak&#8217;s fifth victim&#8217; after gastric illness on holiday"},"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\/AA1ZET0I.img?w=534&amp;h=333&amp;m=6&amp;x=131&amp;y=78&amp;s=363&amp;d=102\" alt=\"Part time nurse Elena Walsh from Birmingham with her husband and her son. Mrs Walsh tragically died in Cape Verde after being struck down with a stomach bug at\u00a0Riu Cabo Verde hotel, next door to the ex-Royal Navy man's\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A fifth Briton is believed to have died after being struck down with gastric illness while on holiday in Cape Verde.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/world\/widow-fears-husband-52-was-cape-verde-outbreak-s-fifth-victim-after-gastric-illness-on-holiday\/ar-AA1ZF0xQ?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=69c9469879ee4f81ae4de92fe8992719&amp;ei=51\">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 fifth Briton is believed to have died after being struck down with gastric illness while on holiday in Cape Verde.\u00a0 Read&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-87083","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\/2026\/02\/Cape-Verde.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87083","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=87083"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87085,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87083\/revisions\/87085"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}