{"id":11225,"date":"2011-08-19T09:16:59","date_gmt":"2011-08-19T13:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=11225"},"modified":"2011-08-19T09:16:59","modified_gmt":"2011-08-19T13:16:59","slug":"government-hiding-dengue-fever-statistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/08\/government-hiding-dengue-fever-statistics","title":{"rendered":"Government Hiding Dengue Fever Statistics?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The scope of the dengue fever outbreak remains unclear as the Ministry of Health has not released any new numbers on reported cases over the last week.<\/p>\n<p>In recent days there have been claims that the scale of the outbreak has been downplayed.<\/p>\n<p>Observers claim that health officials have not reported the true number of people with the vector-born virus.<\/p>\n<p>Minister of Health Dr. Hubert Minnis said that the last count was about 1,500 cases.\u00a0 That was more than a week ago.<\/p>\n<p>Meantime, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u2019s Travelers\u2019 Health website posted the United States Embassy\u2019s \u2018warning about dengue in The Bahamas\u2019 on its site earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>As previously reported, the US Embassy issued an emergency email message about more than a week ago warning potential visitors about the outbreak of dengue fever in The Bahamas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cU.S. citizens should be aware of the recent dengue fever outbreak in The Bahamas,\u201d said the email.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A record number of 1,500 confirmed cases of dengue fever were reported over a week ago but the Ministry of Health has not released any new numbers since then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[40,19,59,73],"class_list":["post-11225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-government","tag-health","tag-islands","tag-travel-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}