{"id":41980,"date":"2015-02-11T19:10:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T11:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=41980"},"modified":"2015-02-12T01:15:45","modified_gmt":"2015-02-11T17:15:45","slug":"sydney-childcare-center-leaves-92-children-exposed-to-tuberculosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/02\/11\/sydney-childcare-center-leaves-92-children-exposed-to-tuberculosis\/","title":{"rendered":"Sydney childcare center leaves 92 children exposed to tuberculosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_42051\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42051\" style=\"width: 601px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/tuberculosis.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-42051\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/tuberculosis.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Mayo Clinic\" width=\"601\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/tuberculosis.jpg 601w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/tuberculosis-300x166.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 601px) 100vw, 601px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-42051\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Mayo Clinic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MOSCOW\u00a0 &#8212; Australian health authorities said that 92 children were exposed to tuberculosis at the Only About Children childcare center in the inner-Sydney suburb of Surry Hills, The Sydney Morning Herald reported Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The medics are now screening the children as well as 15 members of staff, with the preliminary tests results expected on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The infectious person was in the childcare center during this period on a daily basis, so that is what is considered close contact \u2014 being in the same room,&#8221; NSW Health director of communicable diseases Vicky Sheppeard told the newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>Sheppeard said, however, that modern treatment of tuberculosis is highly effective, adding that the case is not considered dangerous to the wider community.<\/p>\n<p>Tuberculosis is an infectious disease caused by bacteria attacking the lungs and other parts of the body. Without proper treatment, the disease may cause wide range of symptoms, including blood-tinged sputum, fever and death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOSCOW\u00a0 &#8212; Australian health authorities said that 92 children were exposed to tuberculosis at the Only About Children childcare center &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":42051,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","category-news-w","mauthors-sputnik-international-via-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}