{"id":122177,"date":"2017-10-08T21:40:03","date_gmt":"2017-10-09T01:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=122177"},"modified":"2017-10-08T21:51:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-09T01:51:00","slug":"suspected-anthrax-outbreak-kills-107-hippos-in-namibia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/10\/08\/suspected-anthrax-outbreak-kills-107-hippos-in-namibia\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspected anthrax outbreak kills 107 hippos in Namibia"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_122181\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-122181\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Hippopotamus.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-122181\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Hippopotamus.jpg\" alt=\"Hippopotamus (Photo by Kabacchi - Hippopotamus - 04, CC BY 2.0)\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Hippopotamus.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Hippopotamus-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Hippopotamus-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-122181\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hippopotamus (<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=22523706\" target=\"_blank\">Photo by Kabacchi &#8211; Hippopotamus &#8211; 04, CC BY 2.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>WINDHOEK<\/strong> \u2014 A suspected anthrax outbreak has killed 107 hippos in one of Namibia&#8217;s biggest game parks in the Zambezi region in Namibia in just one week.<\/p>\n<p>The park&#8217;s deputy director Apollinaris Kannyinga confirmed the deaths Sunday at Bwabwata National Park.<\/p>\n<p>Kannyinga said the first 10 deaths were reported on October 1 but had risen by the end of the week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We suspect an anthrax outbreak, but our veterinary is still yet to confirm that,&#8221; Kannyinga said.<\/p>\n<p>He also said that this was the first time such a deadly outbreak had hit Namibia. Before the outbreak, Namibia had an estimated 1,300 hippos.\u00a0<strong><em>(Xinhua)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WINDHOEK \u2014 A suspected anthrax outbreak has killed 107 hippos in one of Namibia&#8217;s biggest game parks in the Zambezi &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":122181,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[26656,26657,25064],"class_list":["post-122177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-w","tag-anthrax-outbreak","tag-hippos","tag-namibia","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}