{"id":19644,"date":"2017-10-02T15:24:50","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T07:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=19644"},"modified":"2017-10-02T16:26:22","modified_gmt":"2017-10-02T08:26:22","slug":"dr-sim-rabies-outbreak-yet-to-be-eradicated-in-the-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=19644","title":{"rendered":"Dr Sim: Rabies outbreak yet to be eradicated in the state"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the public are advised against letting their guard down on rabies as the virus outbreak has yet to be eradicated in the state.<\/p>\n<p>Local Government and Housing Minister Datuk Dr Sim Kui Hian\u00a0 called to the public to help fight the outbreak of rabies so that the state will be rabies free. He said\u00a0although there had been no new rabies case reported, there must be no new case until 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Sim said this while \u00a0officiating at the \u2018World Rabies Day Community Empowerment Initiative\u2019 at Pullman Kuching here yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, a total of about\u00a060,000 people every year, with more than 95 per cent of cases originating from infected dog bites.\u00a0 Sarawak had been rabies-free\u00a0 until\u00a0end of June this year, when three cases of rabies were notified by the state Health Department\u00a0on June 30.<\/p>\n<p>Five\u00a0deaths have been reported and 24 localities in three divisions (Serian, Kuching and Sri Aman) have been declared rabies-infected areas in Sarawak and he said there is a need for everyone to know about the disease.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/unnamed-13.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-19645\" alt=\"unnamed (1)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/unnamed-13.jpg\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/unnamed-13.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/unnamed-13-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/unnamed-22.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-19646\" alt=\"unnamed (2)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/unnamed-22.jpg\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/unnamed-22.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/unnamed-22-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/unnamed5.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-19647\" alt=\"unnamed\" src=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/unnamed5.jpg\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/unnamed5.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/unnamed5-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the public are advised against letting their guard down on rabies as the virus outbreak has yet to be eradicated in the state. Local Government and Housing Minister Datuk Dr Sim Kui Hian\u00a0 called to the public to help fight the outbreak of rabies so that the state will be rabies free. He said\u00a0although there had been no new rabies case reported, there must be no new case until 2020. Dr. Sim said this while \u00a0officiating at the \u2018World Rabies Day Community Empowerment Initiative\u2019 at Pullman Kuching here<a href=\"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=19644\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19646,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19644"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19648,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19644\/revisions\/19648"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}