{"id":17498,"date":"2020-08-20T09:05:57","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T06:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=17498"},"modified":"2020-08-20T09:06:05","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T06:06:05","slug":"namibians-using-elephant-dung-as-covid-19-cure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2020\/08\/20\/namibians-using-elephant-dung-as-covid-19-cure\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibians Using Elephant Dung As COVID-19 Cure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Namibians Health Minister Kalumbi Shangula has warned people against using elephant dung to &#8220;cure&#8221; Covid-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some traditional healers say the elephant dung can be steamed and inhaled as a treatment for flu, headaches and nosebleeds but the practice has not been scientifically tested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I am worried about unscrupulous people who would make other people spend money on useless remedies in the hope that they will be cured,&#8221; Mr Shangula is quoted as saying by AFP news agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The southern African country has to date confirmed 4,464 coronavirus cases and 37 deaths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>BBC Africa<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Namibians Health Minister Kalumbi Shangula has warned people against using elephant dung to &#8220;cure&#8221; Covid-19. Some traditional healers say the elephant dung can be steamed and inhaled as a treatment for flu, headaches and nosebleeds but the practice has not been scientifically tested. &#8220;I am worried about unscrupulous people who would make other people spend [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":17499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17500,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17498\/revisions\/17500"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}