{"id":20364,"date":"2014-09-20T13:08:57","date_gmt":"2014-09-20T18:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=20364"},"modified":"2014-09-20T13:08:57","modified_gmt":"2014-09-20T18:08:57","slug":"un-security-council-resolution-on-ebola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/20\/un-security-council-resolution-on-ebola\/","title":{"rendered":"UN Security Council Resolution on Ebola"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a quick note.  The UN Security Council has ad its first ever emergency meeting over a health issue, specifically the current West African Ebola outbreak. From a summary in <a href=\"http:\/\/news.sciencemag.org\/africa\/2014\/09\/u-n-security-council-passes-historic-resolution-confront-ebola\">Science<\/a>, the Council &#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230; unanimously passed a resolution that declared the spread of the virus a \u201cthreat to international peace and security\u201d and called on the world to send more health care workers and supplies to Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea, and not to isolate those countries.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power, who chaired today&#8217;s meeting, noted that the resolution had 130 co-sponsors, more than any previous one in the history of the Security Council.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a quick note. The UN Security Council has ad its first ever emergency meeting over a health issue, specifically the current West African Ebola outbreak. From a summary in Science, the Council &#8230; &#8230; unanimously passed a resolution that declared the spread of the virus a \u201cthreat to international peace and security\u201d and called &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/20\/un-security-council-resolution-on-ebola\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UN Security Council Resolution on Ebola<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[49,689,3391,2159],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-5is","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20364"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}