{"id":208893,"date":"2025-01-06T14:29:17","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T14:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/06\/hmpv-outbreak-two-children-test-positive-in-chennai\/"},"modified":"2025-01-06T14:29:17","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T14:29:17","slug":"hmpv-outbreak-two-children-test-positive-in-chennai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/06\/hmpv-outbreak-two-children-test-positive-in-chennai\/","title":{"rendered":"HMPV outbreak: Two children test positive in Chennai"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"901\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/img.etimg.com\/photo\/msid-116998493,imgsize-21754.cms?fit=1200,901&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"HMPV outbreak: Two children test positive in Chennai\" title=\"HMPV outbreak: Two children test positive in Chennai\" \/><\/div>\n<div data-brcount=\"2\">Two children have tested positive for <a ref=\"dofollow\" data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/human-metapneumovirus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Human Metapneumovirus<\/a> (<a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/definition\/hmpv\" rel=\"noopener\">HMPV<\/a>) and are currently undergoing treatment, a health official said on Monday. These two are the first cases to be reported from the city from two hospitals. Further details are awaited. Meanwhile, officials of the state health department held a meeting to discuss the measures to be taken to screen for HMPV and the precautions to be put in place to contain its spread.<!--\/article_liveblog.cms?msid=105115637&pos=botpotime:2--><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/india\/two-children-test-positive-for-hmpv-in-chennai\/articleshow\/116998493.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two children have tested positive for Human Metapneumovirus (HMPV) and are currently undergoing treatment, a health official said on Monday. These two are the first cases to be reported from the city from two hospitals. Further details are awaited. Meanwhile, officials of the state health department held a meeting to discuss the measures to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208894,"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-116998493,imgsize-21754.cms","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[602],"tags":[1580,1388,163215,164857,164681,163628,164858,164504,163216,21678,5840,848],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208893"}],"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=208893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208895,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208893\/revisions\/208895"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}