{"id":8472,"date":"2024-08-10T16:50:53","date_gmt":"2024-08-10T11:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=8472"},"modified":"2024-08-10T16:50:53","modified_gmt":"2024-08-10T11:50:53","slug":"increase-in-tb-cases-in-karachi-3-out-of-4-tests-turning-positive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=8472","title":{"rendered":"Increase in TB cases in Karachi, 3 out of 4 tests turning positive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>There has been a rapid increase in TB cases recorded in Karachi.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Consultant Physician at Jinnah Hospital, Dr. Umar Sultan, stated that for the past six months, 3 out of every 4 TB tests have been coming back positive. In contrast, previously, only one out of four tests was positive.<\/p>\n<p>According to Dr. Umar Sultan, most TB cases are reported in industrial areas.<\/p>\n<p>He further mentioned that air pollution is a major cause of the spread of TB, and not completing the full course of medication is also contributing to the spread of the disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There has been a rapid increase in TB cases recorded in Karachi. Consultant Physician at Jinnah Hospital, Dr. Umar Sultan, stated that for the past six months, 3 out of every 4 TB tests have been coming back positive. In contrast, previously, only one out of four tests was positive. According to Dr. Umar Sultan, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowgLK2DA:productID":"","_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,47,46],"tags":[74,2714,2839],"class_list":["post-8472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-important-news","category-latest","tag-karachi","tag-recorded","tag-tb-cases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}