{"id":14373,"date":"2025-08-21T17:53:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T17:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/14373\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T17:53:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T17:53:08","slug":"how-sierra-leone-beat-back-mpox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/14373\/","title":{"rendered":"How Sierra Leone beat back mpox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-component=\"paragraph\" class=\"css-1l5amll e1y9q0ei0\">Pictures of sore, blistered genitals have gone viral in Sierra Leone in recent months. The gruesome photos showing symptoms of mpox have helped persuade Sierra Leoneans that the virus, which spreads mainly through close physical contact and causes fever, chills and skin blisters, is a real public-health threat. That has made them more willing to follow government advice on how to avoid it. \u201cWhen we had Ebola, I was one of the people saying I don\u2019t believe it is real,\u201d says Moses Lavalie, a 32-year-old in Freetown, the capital. \u201cBut mpox? Mpox is very real.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pictures of sore, blistered genitals have gone viral in Sierra Leone in recent months. The gruesome photos showing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[275],"tags":[4204,18,135,475,474,19,17,65],"class_list":{"0":"post-14373","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-africa","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-health-care","12":"tag-healthcare","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}