{"id":635,"date":"2014-10-26T10:50:45","date_gmt":"2014-10-26T14:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=635"},"modified":"2014-10-26T10:50:45","modified_gmt":"2014-10-26T14:50:45","slug":"why-asia-could-be-the-next-ebola-hotbed-the-epoch-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=635","title":{"rendered":"Why Asia Could Be the Next Ebola Hotbed &#8211; The Epoch Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/n3\/1042754-why-asia-could-be-the-next-ebola-hotbed\/\">Why Asia Could Be the Next Ebola Hotbed &#8211; The Epoch Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 15px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 22px; color: #000000; display: block; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">SINGAPORE\u2014The longer the Ebola outbreak rages in West Africa, the greater chance a traveler infected with the virus touches down in an Asian city.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 15px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 22px; color: #000000; display: block; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">How quickly any case is detected \u2014 and the measures taken once it is \u2014 will determine whether the virus takes hold in a region where billions live in poverty and public health systems are often very weak. Governments are ramping up response plans, stepping up surveillance at airports and considering quarantine measures. Still, health experts in the region\u2019s less developed countries fear any outbreak would be deadly and hard to contain.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 15px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 22px; color: #000000; display: block; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">\u201cThis is a non-treatable disease with a very high mortality rate. And even a country like the United States has not been able to completely prevent it,\u201d said Yatin Mehta, a critical care specialist at the Medanta Medicity hospital near New Delhi. \u201cThe government is trying. They are preparing and they are training, but our record of disaster management has been very poor in the past.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 15px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 22px; color: #000000; display: block; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why Asia Could Be the Next Ebola Hotbed &#8211; The Epoch Times. SINGAPORE\u2014The longer the Ebola outbreak rages in West Africa, the greater chance a traveler infected with the virus touches down in an Asian city. How quickly any case is detected \u2014 and the measures taken once it is \u2014 will determine whether the [&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":[34,223,232,855,856],"class_list":["post-635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-asia","tag-ebola","tag-ebola-virus","tag-viral-pandemic","tag-virus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635","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=635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}