{"id":7895,"date":"2012-02-12T01:58:35","date_gmt":"2012-02-11T23:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/02\/suspected-typhoid-outbreak-shuts-zimbabwe-courts\/"},"modified":"2012-02-12T01:58:35","modified_gmt":"2012-02-11T23:58:35","slug":"suspected-typhoid-outbreak-shuts-zimbabwe-courts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/suspected-typhoid-outbreak-shuts-zimbabwe-courts\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspected typhoid outbreak shuts Zimbabwe courts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">HARARE<\/span> Feb 11 (Reuters) &#8211; Zimbabwe has shut down the<br \/>\ncapital&#8217;s main courthouse after a suspected outbreak of typhoid<br \/>\naffected magistrates and court officials, state media reported<br \/>\non Saturday.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The complex in Harare has had no water for more than two<br \/>\nweeks due to a fault in the system that wasn&#8217;t properly fixed.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Court officials turned away witnesses and suspects and shut<br \/>\ndown the complex on Friday, after at least five magistrates and<br \/>\n20 clerks were suspected of having contracted the disease, the<br \/>\nstate-owned Herald newspaper reported.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Typhoid is caused by taking contaminated food or water and<br \/>\nresults in a fever that can potentially lead to death if not<br \/>\ntreated.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In December about 1,000 people were treated for typhoid in<br \/>\nHarare due to water shortages. At the height of Zimbabwe&#8217;s<br \/>\neconomic crisis in 2008, nearly 4,000 people died from a cholera<br \/>\noutbreak, mostly in the capital.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Most of the major cities in Zimbabwe face water shortages<br \/>\ncaused mainly by ageing infrastructure and lack of money to buy<br \/>\nwater treatment chemicals.\t<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by MacDonald Dzirutwe; Editing by Alessandra Rizzo)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HARARE Feb 11 (Reuters) &#8211; Zimbabwe has shut down the capital&#8217;s main courthouse after a suspected outbreak of typhoid affected magistrates and court officials, state media reported on Saturday. The complex in Harare has had no water for more than two weeks due to a fault in the system that wasn&#8217;t properly fixed. Court officials [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-7895","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}