{"id":7221,"date":"2014-04-16T20:20:20","date_gmt":"2014-04-16T12:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=7221"},"modified":"2014-04-16T20:20:20","modified_gmt":"2014-04-16T12:20:20","slug":"filipino-who-tested-positive-for-mers-virus-returns-home-from-uae-in-first-known-case-in-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/04\/16\/filipino-who-tested-positive-for-mers-virus-returns-home-from-uae-in-first-known-case-in-asia\/","title":{"rendered":"Filipino who tested positive for MERS virus returns home from UAE, in first known case in Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/SEC.-ONA.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7222\" alt=\"SEC. ONA\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/SEC.-ONA.jpg\" width=\"328\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/SEC.-ONA.jpg 328w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/SEC.-ONA-281x300.jpg 281w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 328px) 100vw, 328px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Health Secretary Enrique Ona. Photo from his Facebook Page<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>MANILA, Philippines\u2014Philippine officials say a Filipino health worker who tested positive for the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus has arrived home from the United Arab Emirates. It&#8217;s the first known case of the deadly virus in Asia.<\/p>\n<p>Health Secretary Enrique Ona said Wednesday the Filipino&#8217;s blood tested positive but he has no symptoms of the disease. He has been isolated and people who were in contact with him are being traced and quarantined.<\/p>\n<p>Ona said the man was exposed to a Filipino hospital worker who died of the virus in the UAE last week.<\/p>\n<p>MERS belongs to a family of viruses that includes both the common cold and SARS, which killed some 800 people in a global outbreak in 2003. It can cause fever, breathing problems, pneumonia and kidney failure.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Health Secretary Enrique Ona. Photo from his Facebook Page &nbsp; MANILA, Philippines\u2014Philippine officials say a Filipino health worker who &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":7222,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,95],"tags":[2202],"class_list":["post-7221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news-ph","tag-enrique-ona","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7221","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=7221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}