{"id":70543,"date":"2016-02-12T02:56:29","date_gmt":"2016-02-12T07:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=70543"},"modified":"2016-02-12T02:56:30","modified_gmt":"2016-02-12T07:56:30","slug":"intensified-mosquito-control-in-chinas-1st-zika-virus-patient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2016\/02\/12\/intensified-mosquito-control-in-chinas-1st-zika-virus-patient\/","title":{"rendered":"Intensified mosquito control in China&#8217;s 1st Zika virus patient"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_21192\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21192\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/mosquito-dengue.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21192\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21192\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/mosquito-dengue.jpg\" alt=\"ShutterStock\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/mosquito-dengue.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/mosquito-dengue-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/mosquito-dengue-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-21192\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ShutterStock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>NANCHANG, CHINA &#8211; Mosquito control efforts have been intensified in Ganxian county of east China&#8217;s Jiangxi Province, where the country&#8217;s first patient of imported Zika virus is recovering.<\/p>\n<p>According to local health authorities, epidemic prevention workers have carried out mosquito larvae inspection and sprayed pesticides in and around the hospital and the patient&#8217;s house. Further measures in a larger area are under way.<\/p>\n<p>Experts have also been dispatched by the provincial government to the county to direct medical treatment and epidemic prevention, local sources said.<\/p>\n<p>China detected the first case of Zika virus infection on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The patient, a 34-year-old male, had shown symptoms of fever, headache and dizziness on Jan. 28 in Venezuela, before returning to his hometown on Feb. 5 via Hong Kong and Shenzhen. He has been treated in a hospital in Ganxian since Feb. 6.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: small\">Symptoms of Zika virus infection, which spreads through mosquito bites, include fever, joint pain, rash, conjunctivitis, headache, muscle pain and eye pain.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NANCHANG, CHINA &#8211; Mosquito control efforts have been intensified in Ganxian county of east China&#8217;s Jiangxi Province, where the country&#8217;s &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":21192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[9230],"class_list":["post-70543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-w","tag-uploads","mauthors-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70543","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=70543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}