{"id":597,"date":"2016-08-11T14:12:59","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T08:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quick-newz.com\/major-setback-reported-in-nigeria-2-new-cases-of-polio\/"},"modified":"2016-08-11T14:12:59","modified_gmt":"2016-08-11T08:12:59","slug":"major-setback-reported-in-nigeria-2-new-cases-of-polio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/major-setback-reported-in-nigeria-2-new-cases-of-polio\/","title":{"rendered":"Major Setback Reported in Nigeria: 2 New Cases of Polio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Local news media in Nigeria are reporting two new cases of polio on what would have been the country&#039;s two-year anniversary of being polio free.   Nigeria&#039;s Leadership newspaper reported Thursday that Nigeria&#039;s minister of health said a team is being sent to immunize children in Borno State, where the outbreaks have been reported.   The health minister, professor Isaac Adewole, called the development a setback, but said, &quot;I can assure the nation that we will do everything possible to be on top of the situation,&quot; according the Leadership newspaper.  The government is expected to release a further statement on the outbreak later Thursday.   The cases reportedly occurred in a state in Nigeria&#039;s north, where the insurgent group Boko Haram has been active.  Last month, Doctors Without Borders issued a statement calling the health situation in Borno State &quot;critical&quot; with at least 500,000 people in urgent need of drinking water, food, medical care and shelter. The group called for a &quot;massive relief operation&quot; as the Nigerian army retook control of the main towns and villages, some of which had been under Boko Haram&#039;s sway for two years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local news media in Nigeria are reporting two new cases of polio on what would have been the country&#039;s two-year anniversary of being polio free. Nigeria&#039;s Leadership newspaper reported Thursday that Nigeria&#039;s minister of health said a team is being sent to immunize children in Borno State, where the outbreaks have been reported. The health [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}