{"id":1078,"date":"2014-11-04T06:10:53","date_gmt":"2014-11-04T11:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1078"},"modified":"2014-11-04T06:10:53","modified_gmt":"2014-11-04T11:10:53","slug":"asia-not-doing-enough-to-fight-ebola-asia-pacific-al-jazeera-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1078","title":{"rendered":"Asia &#8216;not doing enough&#8217; to fight Ebola &#8211; Asia-Pacific &#8211; Al Jazeera English"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/asia-pacific\/2014\/11\/asia-not-doing-enough-fight-ebola-201411463611304800.html\">Asia &#8216;not doing enough&#8217; to fight Ebola &#8211; Asia-Pacific &#8211; Al Jazeera English<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; color: #000000;\">Asian countries are not contributing enough to the global effort to fight Ebola, despite having a wealth of trained medical personnel who could help stop the spread of the deadly virus, World Bank Group president, Jim Yong Kim, said.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing a news conference in South Korea&#8217;s capital Seoul on Tuesday, Kim called on leaders across Asia to send trained health professionals to the three West African countries hardest hit by the epidemic.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Many countries in Asia who could help simply are not [helping], especially when it comes to sending health workers,&#8221; Kim told the news conference.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of healthcare workers are needed to help combat the deadliest outbreak of Ebola since records began in 1976.<\/p>\n<p>The virus has killed nearly 5,000 people, mainly in the West African countries of Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asia &#8216;not doing enough&#8217; to fight Ebola &#8211; Asia-Pacific &#8211; Al Jazeera English. Asian countries are not contributing enough to the global effort to fight Ebola, despite having a wealth of trained medical personnel who could help stop the spread of the deadly virus, World Bank Group president, Jim Yong Kim, said. Addressing a news [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[34,223,232,607,872],"class_list":["post-1078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-asia","tag-ebola","tag-ebola-virus","tag-pandemic","tag-west-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}