{"id":312922,"date":"2019-06-04T05:55:13","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T05:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=312922"},"modified":"2019-06-04T05:55:13","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T05:55:13","slug":"23-year-old-kerala-man-infected-with-nipah-confirms-kerala-health-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/23-year-old-kerala-man-infected-with-nipah-confirms-kerala-health-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"23-Year-old Kerala man infected with Nipah, confirms Kerala Health Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_312923\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-312923\" style=\"width: 451px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-312923\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/nipah-300x195.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"451\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/06\/nipah-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/06\/nipah.jpg 527w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 451px) 100vw, 451px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-312923\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Representational Image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Kerala Health Minister KK Shailaja on Tuesday confirmed that the 23-year-old student admitted to a hospital in Ernakulam has tested positive for Nipah virus.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The results of blood samples of the student, which were tested at India\u2019s top diagnostic lab, National Institute of Virology (NIV) in Pune, had confirmed Nipah, she said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">This came a year after an outbreak of\u00a0Nipah virus infection\u00a0in which 17 people were killed in Kerala.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Four more people, including two nurses, are down with fever. Two of them had come in contact with the 23-year-old man.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Over 80 people who came in contact with the patient are being monitored.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Kerala government had asked people not to panic as it had put into place precautionary measures.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kerala Health Minister KK Shailaja on Tuesday confirmed that the 23-year-old student admitted to a hospital in Ernakulam has tested positive for Nipah virus.\u00a0 The results of blood samples of the student, which were tested at India\u2019s top diagnostic lab, National Institute of Virology (NIV) in Pune, had confirmed Nipah, she said. This came a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":312923,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2196,2072,2014],"tags":[466,11438,11437],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312922"}],"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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312924,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312922\/revisions\/312924"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/312923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}