{"id":85435,"date":"2020-01-13T17:32:59","date_gmt":"2020-01-13T12:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=12923"},"modified":"2020-01-13T17:32:59","modified_gmt":"2020-01-13T12:02:59","slug":"explained-what-is-h9n2-which-has-infected-an-indian-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/explained-what-is-h9n2-which-has-infected-an-indian-child\/","title":{"rendered":"Explained: What is H9N2, which has infected an Indian child?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>Indian scientists have detected the country\u2019s first case of infection with a rare variant of the virus called A(H9N2) that causes avian influenza or bird flu.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About A(H9N2) Virus:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>H9N2 is a subtype of influenza A virus that causes human influenza as well as bird flu.<\/li><li>The subtype was isolated for the first time in Wisconsin,US in 1966 from turkey flocks.<\/li><li>According to NCBI US,H9N2 viruses are found worldwide in wild birds and are endemic in poultry in many areas.However, they are somewhat neglected.&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>H9N2 in Humans:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>H9N2 influenza virus can be transmitted by air droplets, dust, feed or water.<\/li><li>However, the H9N2 virus infections in humans are rare but likely under-reported due to typically mild symptoms of the infections.&nbsp;<\/li><li>The first case globally was reported from Hong Kong in 1998.The cases have also been observed in Hong Kong, China, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Egypt.<\/li><li>Recently,the virus was detected in India during a community-based surveillance study in villages of Korku tribes in Melghat district of Maharashtra.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News:Indian scientists have detected the country\u2019s first case of infection with a rare variant of the virus called A(H9N2) that causes avian influenza or bird flu. Facts: About A(H9N2) Virus: H9N2 is a subtype of influenza A virus that causes human influenza as well as bird flu. The subtype was isolated for the first time&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/explained-what-is-h9n2-which-has-infected-an-indian-child\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Explained: What is H9N2, which has infected an Indian child?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1738],"tags":[2778],"class_list":["post-85435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","tag-h9n2","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704576017},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}