{"id":1877,"date":"2004-09-06T13:51:12","date_gmt":"2004-09-06T17:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/archives\/2004\/09\/06\/\/"},"modified":"2004-09-06T13:51:12","modified_gmt":"2004-09-06T17:51:12","slug":"1877","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2004\/09\/1877\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pics\/polio-vaccine.jpg\" alt=\"polio vaccine\" class=\"oldblogthumb\" \/><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/africa\/3630764.stm\" rel=\"external\">Nigeria &#8211; one of the six countries where polio is endemic &#8211; is staring a massive drive against Polio in a bid to wipe out the disease.<\/a><\/strong><br \/>Nigeria will prepare for a synchronised vaccination campaign &#8211; which will run in 22 countries &#8211; at the beginning of October as part of final efforts to rescue the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.endofpolio.org\/\" rel=\"external\">WHO goal of wiping out polio worldwide by 2005<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Polio, mainly affects children under five, and is caused by a virus that invades the nervous system causing paralysis or death. The disease is considered endemic in only six countries &#8211; Afghanistan, Egypt, India, Niger, Nigeria, and Pakistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria &#8211; one of the six countries where polio is endemic &#8211; is staring a massive drive against Polio in a bid to wipe out the disease.Nigeria will prepare for a synchronised vaccination campaign &#8211; which will run in 22 countries &#8211; at the beginning of October as part of final efforts to rescue the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogalog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}