{"id":7287,"date":"2024-08-07T08:04:36","date_gmt":"2024-08-07T13:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=7287"},"modified":"2024-08-07T08:04:39","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T13:04:39","slug":"india-alert-after-boy-dies-from-nipah-virus-in-kerala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/08\/07\/india-alert-after-boy-dies-from-nipah-virus-in-kerala\/","title":{"rendered":"India alert after boy dies from Nipah virus in Kerala"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cj50d7e9vp6o\">BBC<\/a> Health authorities in India&#8217;s Kerala state have issued an alert after a 14-year-old boy died of the Nipah virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the state&#8217;s health minister, an additional 60 people have been identified as being in the high-risk category of having the disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kerala Health Minister Veena George said the boy was from the town of Pandikkad and that those who came into contact with him have been isolated and tested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>People in the area have been asked to take precautions such as wearing masks in public areas and refraining from visiting people in hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cj50d7e9vp6o\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC Health authorities in India&#8217;s Kerala state have issued an alert after a 14-year-old boy died of the Nipah virus. According to the state&#8217;s health minister, an additional 60 people have been identified as being in the high-risk category of having the disease. Kerala Health Minister Veena George said the boy was from the town [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-infectious-diseases","category-nipah"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7288,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7287\/revisions\/7288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}