{"id":27351,"date":"2013-12-02T01:15:46","date_gmt":"2013-12-02T06:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=27351"},"modified":"2013-12-02T01:15:46","modified_gmt":"2013-12-02T06:15:46","slug":"cholera-outbreak-spreading-through-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2013\/12\/cholera-outbreak-spreading-through-mexico\/","title":{"rendered":"Cholera Outbreak Spreading through Mexico."},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Mexico\u2019s health minister has warned of a cholera outbreak across four central states and the capital, claiming the life of one person and infecting many others.<\/div>\n<p><span><br \/>\nThe east-central state of Hidalgo has the highest count of confirmed cases with 145 people being infected, including the death of a 75-year-old woman, said Health Minister Mercedes Juan on Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Other states affected with cholera include Mexico with nine, Veracruz with two, San Luis Potosi with one, and a couple others in Mexico City, the official added.<\/p>\n<p>Juan said that another 3,075 \u201cprobable cases\u201d have been detected throughout the country.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry has launched a nationwide public health campaign aimed at preventing further infections.<\/p>\n<p>Eight in every 10 cases have already been successfully treated, with those infected in the past several weeks ranging in age from three to 86.<\/p>\n<p>The origin of the outbreak has been traced back to a source of fresh water in the Rio Tecoluco in Hidalgo, said David Korenfeld, the head of Mexico&#8217;s national water commission.<\/p>\n<p>Cholera is an acute intestinal infection caused by contaminated food or water, known to occur in places with poor sanitation. The nauseous diarrheal disease is especially fatal for children.<\/p>\n<p>The outbreak marks the first local transmission of the infection since the country&#8217;s last cholera epidemic in 2001, according to the Pan American Health Organization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mexico\u2019s health minister has warned of a cholera outbreak across four central states and the capital, claiming the life of one person and infecting many others. The east-central state of&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27351"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}