{"id":135717,"date":"2024-09-16T13:37:03","date_gmt":"2024-09-16T13:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/16\/karnataka-health-department-steps-up-surveillance-in-bengaluru-after-youth-dies-of-nipah-in-kerala\/"},"modified":"2024-09-16T13:37:04","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T13:37:04","slug":"karnataka-health-department-steps-up-surveillance-in-bengaluru-after-youth-dies-of-nipah-in-kerala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/16\/karnataka-health-department-steps-up-surveillance-in-bengaluru-after-youth-dies-of-nipah-in-kerala\/","title":{"rendered":"Karnataka Health Department steps up surveillance in Bengaluru after youth dies of Nipah in Kerala"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/img.etimg.com\/photo\/msid-113398254,imgsize-186946.cms?resize=1920,1280&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Karnataka Health Department steps up surveillance in Bengaluru after youth dies of Nipah in Kerala\" title=\"Karnataka Health Department steps up surveillance in Bengaluru after youth dies of Nipah in Kerala\" \/><\/div>\n<div data-brcount=\"15\">The <a ref=\"dofollow\" data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/health-authorities\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">health authorities<\/a> in <a ref=\"dofollow\" data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/bengaluru-news\" rel=\"noopener\">Bengaluru<\/a> have ramped up their surveillance efforts after a 23-year old student, a native of Wandoor in <a ref=\"dofollow\" data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/malappuram-district\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Malappuram district<\/a> of Kerala, died from Nipah on September 9. <\/p>\n<p><style><![CDATA[\n    \t    #sr_widget.onDemand p, #stock_pro.onDemand p{font-size: 14px;line-height: 1.28;}\n    \t    .onDemand .live_stock{left:17px;padding:1px 3px 1px 5px;font-size:12px;font-weight:600;line-height:18px;top:9px}\n    \t    #sr_widget.onDemand .sr_desc{margin:0 auto 0;}\n    \t    #sr_widget.onDemand .sr_desc{color: #024d99;margin-top:10px;}\n    \t    #sr_widget.onDemand .crypto .live_stock .lb-icon{8px 6px 5px 3px !important}\n    \t    #sr_widget.crypto.onDemand a.text{border-bottom:1px solid #ccc;padding-bottom:5px;display:block;width:100%}\n    \t    #sr_widget.onDemand .sr_desc .text p, #stock_pro.onDemand .sr_desc .text p{font-size:12px;font-weight:400;}\n    \t]]><\/style>\n<p><!--\/article_liveblog.cms?msid=105115637&pos=toppotime:1-->He breathed his last at a private hospital in Perinthalmanna, near Wandoor. Two labs, one in Kozhikode and another in Pune, confirmed he had contracted <a ref=\"dofollow\" data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/nipah-virus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nipah virus<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The youth was pursuing a postgraduate course at a college in Soladevanahalli on Bengaluru outskirts and returned to his village in Kerala to get himself treated for a leg injury. He got himself hospitalised later after he got a fever.<\/p>\n<p>In Bengaluru, a team from the health department&#8217;s disease surveillance unit visited the educational institution to gather information about the people who visited the youth when he was in hospital and those who attended his funeral. <\/p>\n<p>The authorities have directed the staff at Chikkabanavara and Gopalapura primary health centres in Bengaluru to keep a close-watch on primary and secondary contacts of the deceased student. <\/p>\n<p><!--\/include_growfast.cms?pagename=article&skipcss=1potime:2--><br \/>Two primary contacts, officials said, were found to be asymptomatic. In Thiruvali panchayat, where the youth lived, the <a ref=\"dofollow\" data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/malappuram-district-administration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Malappuram district administration<\/a> has declared four wards as <a ref=\"dofollow\" data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/containment-zones\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">containment zones<\/a>.Health authorities have also set up <a ref=\"dofollow\" data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/monkeypox-testing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Monkeypox testing<\/a> kiosks at the international airport in Bengaluru to ensure international passengers, especially those coming from African countries, are not infected by the virus. If found infected, they have to undergo a three-week quarantine and isolation. <\/p>\n<style><![CDATA[\n    \t    #sr_widget.onDemand p, #stock_pro.onDemand p{font-size: 14px;line-height: 1.28;}\n    \t    .onDemand .live_stock{left:17px;padding:1px 3px 1px 5px;font-size:12px;font-weight:600;line-height:18px;top:9px}\n    \t    #sr_widget.onDemand .sr_desc{margin:0 auto 0;}\n    \t    #sr_widget.onDemand .sr_desc{color: #024d99;margin-top:10px;}\n    \t    #sr_widget.onDemand .crypto .live_stock .lb-icon{8px 6px 5px 3px !important}\n    \t    #sr_widget.crypto.onDemand a.text{border-bottom:1px solid #ccc;padding-bottom:5px;display:block;width:100%}\n    \t    #sr_widget.onDemand .sr_desc .text p, #stock_pro.onDemand .sr_desc .text p{font-size:12px;font-weight:400;}\n    \t]]><\/style>\n<p><!--\/article_liveblog.cms?msid=105115637&pos=botpotime:1--><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/india\/karnataka-health-department-steps-up-surveillance-in-bengaluru-after-youth-dies-of-nipah-in-kerala\/articleshow\/113398254.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The health authorities in Bengaluru have ramped up their surveillance efforts after a 23-year old student, a native of Wandoor in Malappuram district of Kerala, died from Nipah on September 9. He breathed his last at a private hospital in Perinthalmanna, near Wandoor. Two labs, one in Kozhikode and another in Pune, confirmed he had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135718,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/img.etimg.com\/photo\/msid-113398254,imgsize-186946.cms","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[602],"tags":[3849,108723,108726,7403,16,649,55403,5265,108725,2982,108728,108729,108727,83010,83008,442,10107,7058,108724],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135717"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135719,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135717\/revisions\/135719"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}