{"id":304567,"date":"2018-10-23T07:07:07","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T07:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=304567"},"modified":"2018-10-23T07:07:07","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T07:07:07","slug":"zika-virus-on-rise-120-people-tested-positive-in-rajasthan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/zika-virus-on-rise-120-people-tested-positive-in-rajasthan\/","title":{"rendered":"Zika virus on rise: 120 people tested positive in Rajasthan"},"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=\" wp-image-303951 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/zika-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"424\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/zika-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/zika-696x474.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/zika-617x420.jpg 617w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/zika.jpg 730w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 424px) 100vw, 424px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">After a recent surge in cases of Zika virus in Rajasthan, state\u2019s Health Minister Kalicharan Saraf said that 105 treated out of 120 people have tested positive for Zika in the state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">State health minister added, \u201cDoor-to-door survey is being done for screening and awareness of Zika virus.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Saraf further said that the disease can be cured within a time frame of one week if appropriate measures are followed by the patients.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He said, &#8220;According to medical experts, the Zika fever can be cured if patients, who are suffering from it, get plenty of rest, drink ample amount of water, and take medicines such as paracetamol, they can get cured within a week.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Mosquitoes taken as samples from Sindhi Camp and densely populated Shastri Nagar area tested positive for Zika virus. Fogging and other anti-larvae activities are being carried out by 330 teams in the said areas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Zika virus disease is under surveillance of the Union Health Ministry although it is no longer a Public Health Emergency of International Concern under WHO notification since November 18, 2016.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The first case of Zika virus was reported in Rajasthan\u2019s capital on September 21.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a recent surge in cases of Zika virus in Rajasthan, state\u2019s Health Minister Kalicharan Saraf said that 105 treated out of 120 people have tested positive for Zika in the state. State health minister added, \u201cDoor-to-door survey is being done for screening and awareness of Zika virus.&#8221; Saraf further said that the disease can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":303951,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2009,2560,2014],"tags":[6739,1478,3779,6738,6737,5490],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304567"}],"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=304567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304568,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304567\/revisions\/304568"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/303951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}