{"id":5113,"date":"2019-01-08T09:44:20","date_gmt":"2019-01-08T01:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/10.0.5.12\/nnn\/?p=5113"},"modified":"2019-01-08T09:48:27","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T01:48:27","slug":"kenya-200-villagers-contract-anthrax-after-consuming-infected-meat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=5113","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: 200 Villagers Contract Anthrax after Consuming Infected Meat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\nNAIROBI, Jan 7 (NNN-KBC) &#8212; Over 200 residents of Nkururu village in Tharaka Nithi County are suffering from a disease with Anthrax like symptoms after consuming meat from some sick animals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The locals claim they slaughtered their animals after a strange disease claimed parts of their herds but the meat was cleared by a local veterinary doctor who inspected the animals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s a small village with about 800 residents in total located in Tharaka Nithi County.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>200 of them are however said to be presenting symptoms like those of a patient suffering Anthrax disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The disease not only affected adults but children who consumed goat meat during the December festivities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They say in the recent past they have lost several livestock to a strange disease hence those surviving were being slaughtered for meat but not before inspection by a veterinary doctor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Health workers in the area are trying to deal with the problem. &#8212; NNN-KBC\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Jan 7 (NNN-KBC) &#8212; Over 200 residents of Nkururu village in Tharaka Nithi County are suffering from a disease with Anthrax like symptoms after consuming meat from some sick animals. The locals claim they slaughtered their animals after a strange disease claimed parts of their herds but the meat was cleared by a local [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[198],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5113"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}