{"id":13041,"date":"2021-09-07T16:57:11","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T20:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=13041"},"modified":"2021-09-07T16:57:11","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T20:57:11","slug":"authorities-race-to-contain-deadly-nipah-virus-outbreak-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=13041","title":{"rendered":"Authorities race to contain deadly Nipah virus outbreak in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/cbsnews3.cbsistatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2021\/09\/06\/7b6715f5-7dea-4e61-b87a-1c1e985429f4\/thumbnail\/620x407\/fe31da0df7e37e3fed276d5ed0ddb7c0\/india-nipah-ap18145238872232.jpg#\" alt=\"\" width=\"363\" height=\"238\" \/>The virus is far deadlier than COVID-19, and it last claimed Indian lives in 2018, killing 17 of the 18 people who caught it from a contaminated family well.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/nipah-virus-outbreak-india-kerala\/\">Authorities race to contain deadly Nipah virus outbreak in India<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Yikes!\u00a0 75% case fatality rate.\u00a0 Not respiratory.\u00a0 And no cure.\u00a0 But not new, has been sparking outbreaks for ~20 years.\u00a0 Probably nothing to worry about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The virus is far deadlier than COVID-19, and it last claimed Indian&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[41,816,740],"class_list":["post-13041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-india","tag-nipah","tag-pandemic","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}