{"id":20000,"date":"2012-03-28T10:50:06","date_gmt":"2012-03-28T14:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=20000"},"modified":"2012-03-28T10:50:06","modified_gmt":"2012-03-28T14:50:06","slug":"officials-report-malaria-in-exuma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/03\/officials-report-malaria-in-exuma","title":{"rendered":"Officials Report Malaria In Exuma"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_20001\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20001\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20001\" title=\"malaria-exuma\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/malaria-exuma.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/malaria-exuma.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/malaria-exuma-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20001\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Malaria reported in Exuma<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Ministry of Health has been advised of a case of malaria in a traveler who visited the island of Great Exuma between February and March 2012.<\/p>\n<p>A team from the Health and Environment Ministries has been mobilized to investigate if there are other cases of malaria on the island, according to a press statement released by the Ministry of Health.<\/p>\n<p>Malaria is not endemic in The Bahamas, but sporadic cases are encountered from time to time. Malaria is transmitted by the bite of the female anopheles mosquitoes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are ongoing antimalarial prevention and control measures, including fogging and larvicidal treatment of bodies of water,\u201d noted the press statement. \u201cHeightened surveillance activities also continue at community clinics in Exuma, with associated testing of any persons with high fevers (102 degrees F) and symptoms suggestive of malaria,\u201d it continued.<\/p>\n<p>Source: The Nassau Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A case of malaria in a traveler who visited the island of Great Exuma was reported and a team from the Health and Environment Ministries is investigating if there are other cases on the island<\/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":[9],"tags":[19,59,73],"class_list":["post-20000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel","tag-health","tag-islands","tag-travel-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20000","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=20000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}