{"id":6068,"date":"2022-10-10T20:28:24","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T18:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ladhoka.ch\/?p=6063"},"modified":"2022-10-10T20:30:19","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T18:30:19","slug":"dengue-fever-in-kusunti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ladhoka.ch\/?p=6068&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Dengue fever in Kusunti"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In early September, we received a disturbing message from Kathmandu &#171;Children are sick,&#187; Laxmi wrote. For the time being, the symptoms (fatigue, temperature) affected &#171;only&#187; Alisha and Priya. Laxmi took them to the hospital for a check-up and after various blood tests, the somewhat surprising diagnosis <em>of dengue fever<\/em> was made. It soon became clear that this was a veritable outbreak of the plague in the Kathmandu Valley and throughout Nepal*. Dengue is transmitted by mosquitoes. Anamica, Suryansh and Uraj also soon complained about symptoms. The teens were prescribed medication and bed rest and fortunately the unpleasant tropical disease subsided after a few days. Meanwhile, everyone is doing quite well again and the thing seems to be over!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>* The WHO writes: <em>&#171;Dengue is endemic in Nepal. The country is experiencing a surge in cases that started from the week commencing 8 August to 26 August. Between January to 28 September 2022, a total of 28 109 confirmed and suspected dengue cases and 38 confirmed deaths due to dengue have been recorded, affecting all seven provinces.&#187;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"135\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ladhoka.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/9d8b0a81-cb0f-4ee3-b1cd-6b658388f3c7-135x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6064\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ladhoka.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/9d8b0a81-cb0f-4ee3-b1cd-6b658388f3c7-135x300.jpg 135w, https:\/\/www.ladhoka.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/9d8b0a81-cb0f-4ee3-b1cd-6b658388f3c7-461x1024.jpg 461w, https:\/\/www.ladhoka.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/9d8b0a81-cb0f-4ee3-b1cd-6b658388f3c7-691x1536.jpg 691w, https:\/\/www.ladhoka.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/9d8b0a81-cb0f-4ee3-b1cd-6b658388f3c7.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 135px) 100vw, 135px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In early September, we received a disturbing message from Kathmandu &#171;Children are sick,&#187; Laxmi wrote. For the time being, the symptoms (fatigue, temperature) affected &#171;only&#187; Alisha and Priya. Laxmi took them to the hospital for a check-up and after various blood tests, the somewhat surprising diagnosis of dengue fever was made. It soon became clear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6066,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[88],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-6068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-live-from-nepal","tag-childrens-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ladhoka.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ladhoka.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ladhoka.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ladhoka.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ladhoka.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ladhoka.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6069,"href":"https:\/\/www.ladhoka.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6068\/revisions\/6069"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ladhoka.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ladhoka.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ladhoka.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ladhoka.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6068"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ladhoka.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fpost_folder&post=6068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}