{"id":73758,"date":"2017-11-13T19:42:30","date_gmt":"2017-11-14T03:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/scientists-fear-deadly-madagascar-plague-will-reach-us-europe-and-uk"},"modified":"2017-11-13T19:42:30","modified_gmt":"2017-11-14T03:42:30","slug":"scientists-fear-deadly-madagascar-plague-will-reach-us-europe-and-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/scientists-fear-deadly-madagascar-plague-will-reach-us-europe-and-uk","title":{"rendered":"Scientists fear deadly Madagascar plague WILL reach US, Europe and UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><video width=\"636\" height=\"358\" controls><source src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-fear-deadly-madagascar-plague-will-reach-us-europe-and-uk.mp4\" type=\"video\/mp4\"><\/video><\/p>\n<p>The plague death toll shows no sign of slowing as official figures reveal 165 have now lost their lives in Madagascar\u2019s \u2018worst outbreak in 50 years\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Data shows a 15 per cent jump in fatalities over three days, with scientists concerned it has reached \u2018crisis\u2019 point and 10 countries now placed on high alert.<\/p>\n<p>At least 2,034 people have been struck down by a more lethal form of the \u2018medieval disease\u2019 so far in the country off the coast of Africa, according to WHO statistics.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-5076955\/Plague-death-toll-rises-165-Madagascar.html\">http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-5076955\/Plague-dea...ascar.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The plague death toll shows no sign of slowing as official figures reveal 165 have now lost their lives in Madagascar\u2019s \u2018worst outbreak in 50 years\u2019. Data shows a 15 per cent jump in fatalities over three days, with scientists concerned it has reached \u2018crisis\u2019 point and 10 countries now placed on high alert. At [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":440,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73758","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\/440"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}