{"id":243846,"date":"2003-08-08T12:55:00","date_gmt":"2003-08-08T16:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2003\/08\/west-nile-case-feared"},"modified":"2003-08-08T12:55:00","modified_gmt":"2003-08-08T16:55:00","slug":"west-nile-case-feared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2003\/08\/west-nile-case-feared","title":{"rendered":"West Nile Case Feared"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Public Health warned Thursday that a &#8220;suspected case&#8221; is under investigation and said it is stepping up &#8220;surveillance&#8221; activities.<P><br \/>\nDr. Carey told The Guardian newspaper that the Centre for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia had alerted the Ministry of Health about an elderly male visitor from the United States.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have done significant investigation on the matter and are in constant communication with the CDC but the case is not yet confirmed,&#8221; Dr. Carey said.<\/p>\n<p>The warning in this country came the same day Americans were told incidents of the infection have tripled in the US within a week.<\/p>\n<p>The virus is a seasonal infection transmitted by mosquitoes, but a case has never been confirmed in The Bahamas, according to the chief medical officer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=http:\/\/www.dhfs.state.wi.us\/healthtips\/BCD\/WestNile.htm>Click for more information on the virus.<\/a><br \/> http:\/\/www.dhfs.state.wi.us\/healthtips\/BCD\/WestNile.htm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are fears that a tourist may have brought the West Nile virus to The Bahamas  several weeks ago, according to Chief Medical Officer Dr. Baldwin Carey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[],"class_list":["post-243846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243846","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}