{"id":36434,"date":"2026-06-07T12:05:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T10:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=36434"},"modified":"2026-06-07T12:05:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T10:05:28","slug":"nigeria-ramping-up-detection-to-respond-to-ebola","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/nigeria-ramping-up-detection-to-respond-to-ebola\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria ramping up detection to respond to Ebola"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria says it is scaling up its preparedness to detect and respond to the potential entry of the Ebola virus disease in the country.<\/p>\n<p>This follows the outbreak of the disease in East Africa, leading to deaths.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria\u2019s Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director-General Jide Idris says that a risk assessment shows that Nigeria stands a high chance of getting the disease due to the continuous movement of people in and out of the country.<\/p>\n<p>The outbreak in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) last month has led to over 80 confirmed deaths from over 400 confirmed cases.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria has no confirmed case of the disease at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities have urged people in the country to remain calm and continue to go about their normal activities, but report any unusual illness through established public health channels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":35726,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-36434","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Nigeria has no confirmed case of the disease at the moment.","published_date":"","news_description":"Nigeria has no confirmed case of the disease at the moment.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/36434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/36434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36435,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/36434\/revisions\/36435"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=36434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}