{"id":121596,"date":"2021-04-15T19:23:42","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T02:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/health-officials-monitoring-dozens-in-us-for-ebola"},"modified":"2021-04-15T19:23:42","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T02:23:42","slug":"health-officials-monitoring-dozens-in-us-for-ebola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/health-officials-monitoring-dozens-in-us-for-ebola","title":{"rendered":"Health officials monitoring dozens in US for Ebola"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/health-officials-monitoring-dozens-in-us-for-ebola2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Local health authorities in several parts of the United States are monitoring dozens of travelers for Ebola after the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) ordered airlines to collect information on people who\u2019d been in several western African countries, including Guinea or the Democratic Republic of Congo.<\/p>\n<p>Washington state is monitoring <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/news\/nation-world\/national\/article250234060.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">at least 23 travelers<\/a>. Another 45 are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dispatch.com\/story\/news\/2021\/03\/24\/ohio-health-officials-monitoring-residents-exposure-ebola-africa\/6991702002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">being watched in Ohio.<\/a> Four people are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kgw.com\/article\/news\/local\/oregon-monitoring-4-people-ebola\/283-234f6395-b2f4-4133-9354-4a2f79a1ac26\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">also being monitored<\/a> in Oregon.<\/p>\n<p>Ebola is highly contagious and causes severe illness that often leads to death. Symptoms include fever, headache, pain and unexplained bleeding or bruising.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local health authorities in several parts of the United States are monitoring dozens of travelers for Ebola after the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) ordered airlines to collect information on people who\u2019d been in several western African countries, including Guinea or the Democratic Republic of Congo. Washington state is monitoring at least 23 travelers. Another [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}