{"id":64930,"date":"2014-05-19T10:08:07","date_gmt":"2014-05-19T14:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=64930"},"modified":"2014-05-19T10:08:07","modified_gmt":"2014-05-19T14:08:07","slug":"chikungunya-spreading-rapidly-in-haiti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2014\/05\/chikungunya-spreading-rapidly-in-haiti","title":{"rendered":"Chikungunya Spreading Rapidly In Haiti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-64931\" alt=\"haiti\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/haiti.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/>At least 1,529 cases of the Chikungunya virus have been confirmed across Haiti said Ronald Singer, a spokesman for the country&#8217;s Department of Health. About 900 of these cases are in the capital of Port-au-Prince and another 300\u00a0 in northwestern Haiti.<\/p>\n<p>This is a significant and startling increase as on May 6th there were only 14 confirmed cases and reports of 632 confirmed cases the weekend after.<\/p>\n<p>Health authorities here have\u00a0 been bracing for the disease after neighbouring Dominican Republic confirmed at least 150 to 200 cases since March.<\/p>\n<p>The virus was first detected in the Caribbean in December 2013 in St Martin and since then a number of regional countries including Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica and St Vincent and the Grenadines have reported confirmed cases of the painful illness most commonly found in Asia and Africa.<\/p>\n<p>There is no vaccine for chikungunya and it is spread by the pervasive Aedes aegypti mosquito, which also transmits dengue fever in the region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 1,529 cases of the Chikungunya virus have been confirmed across Haiti, confirmed the Department of Health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":64931,"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":[10],"tags":[2023,112,19],"class_list":["post-64930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-disease","tag-haiti","tag-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64930","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\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}