{"id":1631,"date":"2014-09-10T07:20:59","date_gmt":"2014-09-10T07:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=1631"},"modified":"2014-09-10T07:20:59","modified_gmt":"2014-09-10T07:20:59","slug":"ebola-may-wipe-liberia-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=1631","title":{"rendered":"Ebola May Wipe Liberia Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"story_continues_1\">Liberia is facing a &#8220;serious threat&#8221; to its national existence as the deadly Ebola virus &#8220;spreads like wildfire&#8221; there, its defence minister says.<\/p>\n<p>Brownie Samukai told the UN Security Council that the international response to the crisis was &#8220;less than robust&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that thousands more cases could occur in Liberia, which has been worst hit by the West Africa outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>Some 2,288 people have died from Ebola in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone.<\/p>\n<p>The WHO\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/apps.who.int\/iris\/bitstream\/10665\/132834\/1\/roadmapupdate8sept14_eng.pdf\">says<\/a>\u00a0half of these deaths occurred in the three weeks running up to 6 September.<\/p>\n<p>In Nigeria, eight people have died out of a total 21 cases, while one case has been confirmed in Senegal, with no deaths.<\/p>\n<p>Infected health workers<\/p>\n<p>Liberia&#8217;s defence minister warned on Tuesday that the country&#8217;s weak health system was already overwhelmed by the number of cases.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Samukai told UN Security Council members that Liberia lacked &#8220;infrastructure, logistical capacity, professional expertise and financial resources to effectively address this disease&#8221;.<a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Ebola-globalpostcom-360x240.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1347\" alt=\"Ebola-globalpostcom-360x240\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Ebola-globalpostcom-360x240-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Ebola-globalpostcom-360x240-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Ebola-globalpostcom-360x240.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liberia is facing a &#8220;serious threat&#8221; to its national existence as the deadly Ebola virus &#8220;spreads like wildfire&#8221; there, its defence minister says. Brownie Samukai told the UN Security Council that the international response to the crisis was &#8220;less than robust&#8221;. The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that thousands more cases could occur in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1347,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[23],"tags":[39,60],"class_list":["post-1631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news","tag-ebola-virus","tag-liberia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Ebola-globalpostcom-360x240.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-qj","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1632,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631\/revisions\/1632"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}