{"id":16484,"date":"2018-09-27T07:24:48","date_gmt":"2018-09-27T07:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=16484"},"modified":"2018-09-27T07:24:48","modified_gmt":"2018-09-27T07:24:48","slug":"drug-resistant-tb-cases-booming-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=16484","title":{"rendered":"Drug-resistant TB cases booming in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-170301071804049\" readability=\"65.303030303\">\n<p>On Wednesday, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2018\/09\/general-assembly-2018-latest-updates-180925063001598.html\">UN General Assembly<\/a> will be shining a spotlight on the spread of tuberculosis, especially in poorer areas.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/south-africa.html\">South Africa<\/a> has the second-highest rate of TB infection in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>While there has been a seven percent decrease in the number of infections, cases of a drug-resistant strain are on the rise.<\/p>\n<p>And there is concern healthcare workers are putting themselves at risk by treating patients.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera&#8217;s Fahmida Miller reports from Cape Town.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, the UN General Assembly will be shining a spotlight on the spread of tuberculosis, especially in poorer areas. South Africa has the second-highest rate of TB infection in Africa. While there has been a seven percent decrease in the number of infections, cases of a drug-resistant strain are on the rise. And there&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":16485,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}