{"id":35145,"date":"2017-06-14T16:34:30","date_gmt":"2017-06-14T16:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/dr-congo-polio-outbreak-hits-global-eradication\/"},"modified":"2017-06-14T16:34:16","modified_gmt":"2017-06-14T16:34:16","slug":"dr-congo-polio-outbreak-hits-global-eradication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/dr-congo-polio-outbreak-hits-global-eradication\/","title":{"rendered":"DR Congo polio outbreak hits global eradication goal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Two outbreaks of polio have been identified in the Democratic Republic of Congo, in a blow to the goal of wiping out the disease from the world.}<\/p>\n<p>The World Health Organization said there was a high risk the disease would spread.<br \/>\nPolio is a potentially deadly infection mainly affecting young people and can result in permanent paralysis.<\/p>\n<p>It had been pushed back to just three countries until an outbreak was last week confirmed in Syria.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;WHO assesses the risk of further national spread of these strains to be high, and the risk of international spread to be medium,&#8221; the WHO stated in its disease outbreak report.<\/p>\n<p>The strain of polio involved comes from areas with poor vaccine coverage.<\/p>\n<p>At least four cases have been identified.<\/p>\n<p>Two were found in the eastern Maniema province and two further south in Haut-Lomami province, the WHO says.<\/p>\n<p>A global vaccination campaign had left Nigeria, Pakistan and Afghanistan as the only countries where polio remained endemic.<\/p>\n<p>The WHO had hoped to eradicate it by 2000 but this target has been repeatedly postponed.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-20793 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/_90763963_gettyimages-72537955.jpg\" alt=\"Polio can only be prevented through immunisation\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Source:BBC <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Two outbreaks of polio have been identified in the Democratic Republic of Congo, in a blow to the goal of wiping out the disease from the world.} The World Health Organization said there was a high risk the disease would spread. Polio is a potentially deadly infection mainly affecting young people and can result in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[100],"byline":[249],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-35145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","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\/35145","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35145"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=35145"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=35145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}