{"id":18514,"date":"2014-09-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-17T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/18514\/nm51\/"},"modified":"2014-09-18T13:24:51","modified_gmt":"2014-09-18T11:24:51","slug":"nm51","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2014\/09\/18\/nm51\/","title":{"rendered":"Patient in isolation Ebola fear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ebola is an infectious and generally fatal disease marked by fever and severe internal bleeding.<\/p>\n<p>The outbreak of the virus has killed thousands of people and left many devastated in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The man had just landed from Nigeria with fever, headache, a sore throat, weakness and nose bleeding.<\/p>\n<p>An informant indicated that the Middelburg Hospital was preparing an isolation ward for a suspected Ebola patient on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>He was first taken to the Witbank Civic Centre and sent to the Middelburg Provincial Hospital for further testing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe blood test results were negative for Ebola but tested positive for a common flu,\u201d said Philemon Letlalo, CEO of the Middelburg Provincial Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>He further added that they are very careful with such cases and every person from a high risk area such as Nigeria, Kenya, Liberia to add but a few, will be tested thoroughly for Ebola.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Nigerian national with suspected Ebola symptoms was admitted to the Middelburg Provincial Hospital on Wednesday 17 September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":18517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Naledi Malekane","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}