{"id":304059,"date":"2018-10-12T08:14:09","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T08:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=304059"},"modified":"2018-10-12T08:14:09","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T08:14:09","slug":"outbreak-of-dengue-in-himachal-pradesh-100-cases-registered-in-kangra-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/outbreak-of-dengue-in-himachal-pradesh-100-cases-registered-in-kangra-district\/","title":{"rendered":"Outbreak of Dengue in Himachal Pradesh, 100 cases registered in Kangra District"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-304060 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/dengue-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/dengue-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/dengue.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">At least 100 cases of Dengue have been registered in Himachal Pradesh&#8217;s Kangra District till October 10.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to reports RS Rana, Chief Medical Officer of Kangra District, said that the health department has initiated an awareness campaign to prevent the spread of disease.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHA) workers are spreading awareness among general public about the prevention of disease and warning people to take appropriate precautionary measures.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Chief Medical officer Rana said, &#8220;The health department has initiated an awareness campaign in all the regions. Our ASHA workers and other health workers are informing the people about various methods of precautions. Apart from this, our department has started fogging to kill the mosquitoes, which will continue till November.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Rana also said that one can protect themselves from dengue by not getting panic attacks and by being cautious.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He further added that all the dengue cases recorded positive are being treated and till now no death has been recorded in this matter.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 100 cases of Dengue have been registered in Himachal Pradesh&#8217;s Kangra District till October 10. According to reports RS Rana, Chief Medical Officer of Kangra District, said that the health department has initiated an awareness campaign to prevent the spread of disease. Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHA) workers are spreading awareness among general [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":304060,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2898,2009,2014],"tags":[5536,5535,5533,1340,3909,5534],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304059"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304061,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304059\/revisions\/304061"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/304060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}