{"id":6678,"date":"2019-12-11T09:43:53","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T09:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=6678"},"modified":"2019-12-11T09:43:55","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T09:43:55","slug":"1st-polio-case-surfaces-in-malaysia-after-27-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/1st-polio-case-surfaces-in-malaysia-after-27-years\/","title":{"rendered":"1st polio case surfaces in Malaysia after 27 years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Malaysia began a vaccination campaign in a rural town on\nBorneo Island after a 3-month-old boy was confirmed to have polio in the\ncountry\u2019s first case of the highly infectious virus in 27 years. Malaysia is\nthe second Asian country to have reported a polio case after an outbreak in the\nPhilippines in September. The World Health Organization says polio, which has\nbeen largely eradicated, remains endemic in only Pakistan and Afghanistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Malaysia\u2019s last polio case occurred in 1992 and the country\nwas declared polio-free in 2000. The health ministry said the strain was\nbelieved to have originated from a weakened virus contained in oral polio\nvaccine that was excreted from the body through feces and possibly spread in an\nunsanitary environment to those who haven\u2019t been immunized.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Malaysia began a vaccination campaign in a rural town on Borneo Island after a 3-month-old boy was confirmed to have polio in the country\u2019s first case of the highly infectious virus in 27 years. Malaysia is the second Asian country to have reported a polio case after an outbreak in the Philippines in September. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":6679,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[832],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-december-2019"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6680,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6678\/revisions\/6680"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}