{"id":1359,"date":"2009-02-17T09:30:10","date_gmt":"2009-02-17T17:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bbrace.laughingsquid.net\/wordpress\/?p=1359"},"modified":"2009-02-17T09:30:10","modified_gmt":"2009-02-17T17:30:10","slug":"health-workers-alarmed-at-pace-of-dengue-in-new-caledonia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/?p=1359","title":{"rendered":"Health workers alarmed at pace of dengue in New Caledonia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Health authorities in New Caledonia say dengue fever is spreading at an<br \/>\nalarming rate, with over over 1,000 cases reported in the French Pacific<br \/>\nterritory since the New Year.<\/p>\n<p>In the first six weeks of this year, 1,027 dengue cases have been reported,<br \/>\na figure close to the total number of cases recorded last year.<\/p>\n<p>Health officials say they are particularly concerned that 546 of the 2009<br \/>\ncaseload were reported in the past two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>New Caledonia&#8217;s director of sanitary and social affairs, Jean Paul<br \/>\nGrangeon, says the situation is worrying.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is a serious outbreak of dengue in New Caledonia. We&#8217;ve got nearly<br \/>\n60 new cases a day now,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the infections involve Type 4 dengue fever, which was last recorded<br \/>\nin New Caledonia 30 years ago, and against which most people have no<br \/>\nimmunity.<\/p>\n<p>The outbreak has also spread to neighbouring Pacific countries including<br \/>\nFiji, Samoa, Palau, Kiribati, Vanuatu, American Samoa and the Cook Islands.<\/p>\n<p>Health authorities say that as the weather gets cooler and milder, the<br \/>\nbreeding rate of mosquitoes should slow, making it easier to bring the<br \/>\nepidemic under control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health authorities in New Caledonia say dengue fever is spreading at an alarming rate, with over over 1,000 cases reported in the French Pacific territory since the New Year. In the first six weeks of this year, 1,027 dengue cases have been reported, a figure close to the total number of cases recorded last year. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","spay_email":""},"categories":[58,8,60,11,20,24,27,43],"tags":[61],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}