{"id":15154,"date":"2015-06-29T10:46:24","date_gmt":"2015-06-29T17:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/africa-is-going-to-be-polio-free-soon"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:27:08","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:27:08","slug":"africa-is-going-to-be-polio-free-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/africa-is-going-to-be-polio-free-soon","title":{"rendered":"Africa Is Going To Be Polio-Free Soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/africa-is-going-to-be-polio-free-soon.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After years of frustrating pushback, Africa may soon be able to declare itself polio-free.<\/p>\n<p>The disease that affects mostly children under 5 and can lead to irreversible paralysis, has been all but wiped out in Africa \u2014 except for in Nigeria. There, religious leaders often interfered with vaccination campaigns, but thanks to increased efforts, the country hasn\u00e2\u0080\u0099t seen a new polio case since July of last year, NPR\u00e2\u0080\u0099s Goats and Soda reported.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2015\/06\/26\/nigeria-polio_n_7674414.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After years of frustrating pushback, Africa may soon be able to declare itself polio-free. The disease that affects mostly children under 5 and can lead to irreversible paralysis, has been all but wiped out in Africa \u2014 except for in Nigeria. There, religious leaders often interfered with vaccination campaigns, but thanks to increased efforts, the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":360,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15154","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\/360"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15154"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69895,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15154\/revisions\/69895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}