{"id":22946,"date":"2018-09-30T00:39:45","date_gmt":"2018-09-29T16:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=22946"},"modified":"2018-09-30T08:55:16","modified_gmt":"2018-09-30T00:55:16","slug":"preventing-rabies-from-spreading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=22946","title":{"rendered":"Preventing rabies from spreading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Miri Municipal council Mayor, Adam Yii disclosed that \u00a0a total of 921 strays from various parts of Miri had been captured to curb the spread\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">of rabies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Yii said two areas in Miri,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Piasau Jaya and Lutong Shell, were confirmed to be infected by the\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">rabies disease on Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">He said the Miri council had been working diligently to avoid Miri\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">being affected but as it was unfortunate that it has happened, he\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">said, they should now work towards curbing the disease from further\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">spreading.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Yii said he needs the assistance and co-operation of all Mirian to\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">stop the spread by doing the necessaries. Flyers, he said, has been\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">distributed through social media to tell the people on the &#8216;do&#8217;s&#8217; and\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8216;don\u2019t&#8217;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;As in August, the Council have Issued 2,369 licenses (male 1,394,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">bitch 975). For dog owners, they have to ensure their pets are\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">vaccinated and not to let their dogs out of their houses. In case of\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">anyone bitten, they should seek medical help immediately. We are\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">serious in tackling stray dog issue and will redouble our effort.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Please do not abandone your pets but call up the vet for assistance,&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Yii also advised Mirian not to take out stray from affected area and\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">put them elsewhere.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_22947\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22947\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/unnamed12.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-22947\" alt=\"Adam Yii\" src=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/unnamed12-300x300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/unnamed12-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/unnamed12-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/unnamed12-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/unnamed12.jpg 1125w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22947\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adam Yii<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miri Municipal council Mayor, Adam Yii disclosed that \u00a0a total of 921 strays from various parts of Miri had been captured to curb the spread\u00a0of rabies. Yii said two areas in Miri,\u00a0Piasau Jaya and Lutong Shell, were confirmed to be infected by the\u00a0rabies disease on Thursday. He said the Miri council had been working diligently to avoid Miri\u00a0being affected but as it was unfortunate that it has happened, he\u00a0said, they should now work towards curbing the disease from further\u00a0spreading. Yii said he needs the assistance and co-operation of all Mirian<a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=22946\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22947,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22946"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22948,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22946\/revisions\/22948"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}