{"id":98519,"date":"2024-07-20T19:17:09","date_gmt":"2024-07-20T19:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/20\/nipah-outbreak-14-year-old-boy-in-keralas-malappuram-tests-positive-for-virus-govt-issues-alert\/"},"modified":"2024-07-20T19:17:09","modified_gmt":"2024-07-20T19:17:09","slug":"nipah-outbreak-14-year-old-boy-in-keralas-malappuram-tests-positive-for-virus-govt-issues-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/20\/nipah-outbreak-14-year-old-boy-in-keralas-malappuram-tests-positive-for-virus-govt-issues-alert\/","title":{"rendered":"Nipah outbreak: 14-year-old boy in Kerala&#8217;s Malappuram tests positive for virus; govt issues alert"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1070\" height=\"580\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/img.etimg.com\/thumb\/msid-111890066,width-1070,height-580,overlay-economictimes\/photo.jpg?fit=1070,580&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Nipah outbreak: 14-year-old boy in Kerala&#8217;s Malappuram tests positive for virus; govt issues alert\" title=\"Nipah outbreak: 14-year-old boy in Kerala&#8217;s Malappuram tests positive for virus; govt issues alert\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Kerala Health Minister Veena George announced on Saturday that a 14-year-old boy from Malappuram district has tested positive for the Nipah virus. This confirmation follows an urgent high-level meeting convened to address a suspected Nipah infection in the northern part of Malappuram district. The boy is currently receiving treatment in a private hospital in Kozhikode, and his samples have been sent to a central laboratory for comprehensive testing. &#8220;He will be shifted to the government medical college at Kozhikode. The contact tracing has begun. High-risk contacts have already been isolated and their samples have been sent for testing,&#8221; George told the media.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/india\/nipah-outbreak-14-year-old-boy-in-keralas-malappuram-tests-positive-for-virus-govt-issues-alert\/videoshow\/111890066.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kerala Health Minister Veena George announced on Saturday that a 14-year-old boy from Malappuram district has tested positive for the Nipah virus. This confirmation follows an urgent high-level meeting convened to address a suspected Nipah infection in the northern part of Malappuram district. The boy is currently receiving treatment in a private hospital in Kozhikode, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98520,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/img.etimg.com\/thumb\/msid-111890066,width-1070,height-580,overlay-economictimes\/photo.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[602],"tags":[30943,670,12574,3056,58347,1678,2982,64155,24906,24905,52232,83010,83009,83008,21678,5840,7795,83011,15803],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98519"}],"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=98519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98521,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98519\/revisions\/98521"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}