{"id":47348,"date":"2009-11-23T14:50:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-23T19:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/flu-outbreak-prompts-border-shutdown-in-central-asia-2009-11"},"modified":"2009-11-23T14:50:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-23T19:50:00","slug":"flu-outbreak-prompts-border-shutdown-in-central-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/47348","title":{"rendered":"Flu Outbreak Prompts Border Shutdown In Central Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/~~\/f?id=4b0ae7280000000000e30c01\" border=\"0\" alt=\"flu europe ukraine swine\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The growing European flu scare is causing government to restrict travel between countries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/silkroadintelligencer.com\/2009\/11\/23\/uzbekistan-closes-border-with-kazakhstan\/\">Reuters<\/a>: Uzbekistan has closed its border with central Asian neighbor Kazakhstan to all but citizens of each nation returning home, the Kazakh Foreign Ministry said on Monday, as swine flu spreads in both countries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Kazakh media and residents of the Uzbek capital Tashkent have connected the move to fears about an outbreak of the H1N1 flu virus, but this has not been confirmed by the authorities there.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/silkroadintelligencer.com\/2009\/11\/23\/uzbekistan-closes-border-with-kazakhstan\/\">Read the whole thing &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/flu-outbreak-prompts-border-shutdown-in-central-asia-2009-11#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/ukraine-flu-death-toll-hits-400-2009-11\">Ukraine Flu Death Toll Hits 400<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/bubonic-plague-20-could-spread-across-europe-2009-11\">New Flu Strain Is Worse Than Swine Flu, And Affecting Millions Across Europe<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/ukrainian-black-lung-deaths-doubling-every-two-weeks-throughout-europe-2009-11\">Ukrainian Black Lung Deaths Doubling Every Two Weeks Throughout Europe<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The growing European flu scare is causing government to restrict travel between countries. Reuters: Uzbekistan has closed its border with central Asian neighbor Kazakhstan to all but citizens of each nation returning home, the Kazakh Foreign Ministry said on Monday, as swine flu spreads in both countries. Kazakh media and residents of the Uzbek capital [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}