{"id":57384,"date":"2023-08-09T13:51:55","date_gmt":"2023-08-09T04:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/09\/china-warns-of-disease-outbreaks-in-flood-hit-areas-as-death-toll-rises"},"modified":"2023-08-09T13:51:55","modified_gmt":"2023-08-09T04:51:55","slug":"china-warns-of-disease-outbreaks-in-flood-hit-areas-as-death-toll-rises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=57384","title":{"rendered":"China warns of disease outbreaks in flood-hit areas as death toll rises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Local officials say crops and agricultural equipment across the country\u2019s north were affected after the area experienced more than a year\u2019s rainfall in a week<\/p>\n<p>China has warned of crop and animal diseases breaking out as floodwaters retreated from rural areas in the north, while some cities struggled to restore drinking water supplies after the worst flooding in six decades which have left more than 30 dead.<\/p>\n<p>Hebei province, which shares a border with the capital Beijing, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/07\/china-floods-rain-weather-deaths-jilin-province-shulan-city\">struck by more than a year\u2019s rainfall last week<\/a> from storms that followed Typhoon Doksuri, affecting autumn crops and damaging agricultural equipment.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/09\/china-warns-of-disease-outbreaks-in-flood-hit-areas-as-death-toll-rises\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local officials say crops and agricultural equipment across the country\u2019s north were affected after the area experienced more than a year\u2019s rainfall in a weekChina has warned of crop and animal diseases breaking out as floodwaters retreated from rural &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,455],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-extreme-weather"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57385,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57384\/revisions\/57385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}