{"id":27660,"date":"2016-08-12T02:42:28","date_gmt":"2016-08-12T02:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/nigeria-reports-first-polio-cases-since-2014\/"},"modified":"2016-08-12T02:42:05","modified_gmt":"2016-08-12T02:42:05","slug":"nigeria-reports-first-polio-cases-since-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/nigeria-reports-first-polio-cases-since-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria reports first polio cases since 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{The Nigerian government has reported two cases of polio &#8211; the country&#8217;s first in two years.}<\/p>\n<p>It said two children had been paralysed by the disease in the north-eastern Borno state, a part of Nigeria where Boko Haram militants are active.<\/p>\n<p>The development is seen as a major setback for Nigeria, which was on track to be declared polio free in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Polio is an infectious viral disease that usually affects children. It can only be prevented through immunisation.<\/p>\n<p>The disease is spread by poor sanitation and contaminated water.<\/p>\n<p>A UN immunisation programme in Nigeria has had to contend with rumours that the vaccine was a plot to sterilise Muslims.<\/p>\n<p>Polio vaccination centres in the country have also been attacked by Boko Haram Islamist militants.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-14174 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/_90759848_df36c79d-a379-4c10-ad4e-39aa6f1556f3.jpg\" alt=\"Polio can only be prevented through immunisation\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The Nigerian government has reported two cases of polio &#8211; the country&#8217;s first in two years.} It said two children had been paralysed by the disease in the north-eastern Borno state, a part of Nigeria where Boko Haram militants are active. The development is seen as a major setback for Nigeria, which was on track [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[100],"byline":[249],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-27660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-africa","byline-bbc"],"bylines":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"contributors":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27660"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=27660"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=27660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}