{"id":276893,"date":"2019-05-23T07:18:41","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T11:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiO2h0dHA6Ly93d3cueGluaHVhbmV0LmNvbS9lbmdsaXNoLzIwMTktMDUvMjMvY18xMzgwODM0MjcuaHRt0gEA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-21T11:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T15:48:11","slug":"an-acute-watery-diarrhea-outbreak-killed-12-people-in-amharas-wag-himra-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/276893","title":{"rendered":"An acute watery diarrhea outbreak killed 12 people in Amhara\u2019s Wag Himra zone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2019 Xinhua reported that an acute watery diarrhea outbreak in Wag Himra zone of Amhara Region had killed 12 people, with local officials citing recent deaths and dozens of illnesses and deploying a federal\u2013regional medical taskforce.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-602499\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/health-stpauls-1280.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"An acute watery diarrhea outbreak killed 12 people in Amhara\u2019s Wag Himra zone\" \/>\n<p>Authorities said they were trying to contain spread before the main rainy season, when contaminated water often worsens diarrhea outbreaks.<\/p>\n<p>AWD clusters are a recurring public-health marker in highland and lowland Amhara, especially where latrines, chlorination, and clinic stocks lag.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as health archive, the Wag Himra outbreak file dates a concrete 2019 death toll rather than a general campaign slogan.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xinhuanet.com\/english\/2019-05\/23\/c_138083427.htm\">Xinhua<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Acute water diarrhea outbreak kills 12 in northern Ethiopia &#8211; Xinhua | English.news.cn&nbsp;&nbsp;XinhuaADDIS ABABA, May 23 (Xinhua) &#8212; An acute watery diarrhea (AWD) outbreak in Ethiopia&#8217;s northern Amhara regional state has left 12 people dead, an off&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":602499,"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-276893","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\/2026\/09\/health-stpauls-1280.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1a21","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276893","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\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276893"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754874,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276893\/revisions\/754874"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}