{"id":94862,"date":"2015-09-21T11:12:44","date_gmt":"2015-09-21T03:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=94862"},"modified":"2015-09-21T11:12:44","modified_gmt":"2015-09-21T03:12:44","slug":"beware-rabies-is-fatal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=94862","title":{"rendered":"Beware! Rabies is fatal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CONFIRMED cases of rabid dogs are cause for concern. Rabies, or hydrophobia, is a fatal disease, incurable once it has gotten hold of its victim whether human or animal. It is treatable only in the very early stages when the symptoms have not surfaced. Fortunately, those bitten by dogs, 39 cases in all in Perlis, Kedah and Penang to date have been treated and vaccinated and are now under observation. Ten of the 39 dogs were found to be rabid, meaning that a red alert should already be operational and an aggressive containment exercise underway. This is especially important given that the country had been declared rabies-free in 2012, that is, in the preceding 10 years no cases of rabies were reported. Sadly that has come to an end.<\/p>\n<p>To continue reading the rest of the article, click <a href=\"http:\/\/ift.tt\/1LHkZwd\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CONFIRMED cases of rabid dogs are cause for concern. Rabies, or hydrophobia, is a fatal disease, incurable once it has gotten hold of its victim&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[79],"nelio_content":{"isAutoShareEnabled":true,"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"followers":[],"suggestedReferences":[],"efiUrl":"","efiAlt":"","highlights":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94862"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94863,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94862\/revisions\/94863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}