{"id":18386,"date":"2020-03-27T14:55:58","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T21:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/?p=18386"},"modified":"2020-03-27T13:32:39","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T20:32:39","slug":"double-whammy-in-india-bird-flu-comes-knocking-in-times-of-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/double-whammy-in-india-bird-flu-comes-knocking-in-times-of-lockdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Double Whammy In India: Bird flu Comes Knocking In Times Of Lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Strange Sounds<\/a> – March 25, 2020<\/p>\n

Two localities in Patna have been tested positive for bird flu.<\/p>\n

Thousands birds have been culled in Kerala. A patient has also been confirmed positive for swine flu in Bihar. Several died from Monkey fever. What\u2019s more for India?<\/p>\n

While 1.3 billion people went under \u201ctotal lockdown\u201d for 21 days to combat the spread of the contagion in India, several states are reporting avian influenza in parallel.<\/p>\n

Samples in Bihar and Kerala have tested positive for H5N1 virus. A patient has also been confirmed positive for swine flu in Bihar.<\/p>\n

In Bihar, samples of dead crows were sent to the National Institute of High-Security Animal Diseases (NIHSAD) at Bhopal, where the results confirmed the worst fears.<\/p>\n

In Kerala, the state government has decided to destroy the disease at the source and mass culling have already started since a week to contain a possible outbreak.<\/p>\n

Avian influenza A (H5N1) is contagious among birds and can be fatal. There have been instances of human beings getting infected with the virus:<\/p>\n

\u201cIn most of the cases, people having direct or close contact with H5N1-infected poultry or H5N1-contaminated surfaces contracted the disease.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThe H5N1 strain of bird flu is regarded as highly pathogenic and can also cause disease and death in humans.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Strange Sounds – March 25, 2020 Two localities in Patna have been tested positive for bird flu. Thousands birds have been culled in Kerala. A patient has also been confirmed positive for swine flu in Bihar. Several died from Monkey fever. What\u2019s more for India? While 1.3 billion people went under \u201ctotal lockdown\u201d for 21 … Continue reading Double Whammy In India: Bird flu Comes Knocking In Times Of Lockdown<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[6382,4060,36,22,23,39,14839,42,14838],"class_list":["post-18386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pale-horse","tag-avian-influenza","tag-bird-flu","tag-disaster","tag-disease","tag-epidemic","tag-india","tag-nihsad","tag-outbreak","tag-patna"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-4My","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18386"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18389,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18386\/revisions\/18389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}