{"id":136200,"date":"2014-08-12T02:11:35","date_gmt":"2014-08-12T02:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=136200"},"modified":"2014-08-12T02:11:35","modified_gmt":"2014-08-12T02:11:35","slug":"us-send-untested-ebola-drug-liberia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/us-send-untested-ebola-drug-liberia\/","title":{"rendered":"US &#8216;to send&#8217; untested Ebola drug to Liberia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Liberia has said it will receive doses of an experimental Ebola drug to treat infected doctors in the West African country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">A statement, published on the Liberian presidency&#8217;s website on Monday, said the United States had approved a request from Liberia&#8217;s President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf to ship the medicine, ZMapp, after a direct appeal to US President Barack Obama on Friday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">However, a spokesperson for the US Health and Human Services (HHS) Department said US authorities had simply assisted in connecting the Liberian government with the drug&#8217;s manufacturer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;Since the drug was shipped for use outside the US, appropriate export procedures had to be followed,&#8221; the HHS spokesperson said, adding the drug company had worked directly with the Liberian government.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/africa\/2014\/08\/us-send-untested-ebola-drug-liberia-201481212338850440.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liberia has said it will receive doses of an experimental Ebola drug to treat infected doctors in the West African country. A statement, published on the Liberian presidency&#8217;s website on Monday, said the United States had approved a request from Liberia&#8217;s President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf to ship the medicine, ZMapp, after a direct appeal to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":136201,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,1616],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-136200","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-usa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}