{"id":14401,"date":"2023-11-24T10:12:43","date_gmt":"2023-11-24T10:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/world-health-organization-asks-china-to-explain-spike-in-respiratory-illnesses\/"},"modified":"2023-11-24T10:12:43","modified_gmt":"2023-11-24T10:12:43","slug":"world-health-organization-asks-china-to-explain-spike-in-respiratory-illnesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/world-health-organization-asks-china-to-explain-spike-in-respiratory-illnesses\/","title":{"rendered":"World Health Organization asks China to explain spike in respiratory illnesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ctosRdYPIrE\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Chinese officials say they did not detect any &#8220;unusual or novel diseases&#8221; in the country, the World Health Organization said Thursday, following an official request by the UN health agency for information about a potentially worrying spike in respiratory illnesses and clusters of pneumonia in children.<\/p>\n<p>\nSubscribe to CTV News to watch more videos:<\/p>\n<p>Connect with CTV News:<br \/>\nFor the latest news visit: <br \/>\nFor a full video offering visit the CTV News Network:<\/p>\n<p>CTV News on Facebook:  <br \/>\nCTV News on TikTok:<br \/>\nCTV News on Twitter:  <br \/>\nCTV News on Instagram: <br \/>\nCTV News on Reddit:<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8212;<br \/>\nCTV News is Canada&#8217;s most-watched news organization both locally and nationally, and has a network of national, international, and local news operations.<\/p>\n<hr>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese officials say they did not detect any &#8220;unusual or novel diseases&#8221; in the country, the World Health Organization said Thursday, following an official request by the UN health agency for information about a potentially worrying spike in respiratory illnesses&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":14402,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[99,15236,8579,2754,1757,2755,950,48,15190,8100,884],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14401"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}