{"id":261590,"date":"2019-01-17T14:40:36","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T19:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?guid=aeca07d6239455c833076b91975dc185"},"modified":"2019-02-07T02:49:48","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T07:49:48","slug":"malaria-causing-mosquito-found-in-ethiopia-for-the-1st-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/261590","title":{"rendered":"Malaria-causing mosquito found in Ethiopia for the first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Anopheles stephensi\u00a0mosquito, which causes malaria, has been found in Ethiopia for the first time. The discovery has triggered\u00a0fears of malaria spreading in the East African country.<\/p>\n<p>According to a study by a researcher from Baylor University, Anopheles stephensi is usually found in places like China, the Middle East, and the Indian Subcontinent. The study estimates that about 68 percent of Ethiopia&#8217;s population is at risk of suffering from malaria.<\/p>\n<p>Malaria, which is caused by transmitted by mosquitoes, is one of the most common illnesses in the world. In 2017, the World Malaria Report recorded about 2.5 million cases. [&#8230;] <a href=\"http:\/\/outbreaknewstoday.com\/malaria-mosquito-vector-anopheles-stephensi-seen-ethiopia-1st-time-73732\/\">CONTINUE READING<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malaria mosquito vector, Anopheles stephensi, seen in Ethiopia for 1st time&nbsp;&nbsp;Outbreak News TodayA type of mosquito that transmits malaria has been detected in Ethiopia for the first time, and the discovery has implications for putting more pe&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":261654,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-261590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/image.jpg?fit=910%2C607&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-163c","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261590"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":261656,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261590\/revisions\/261656"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}