{"id":5026,"date":"2011-07-28T23:14:29","date_gmt":"2011-07-28T16:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=5026"},"modified":"2011-07-28T23:14:29","modified_gmt":"2011-07-28T16:14:29","slug":"more-people-being-tested-for-hendra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/industry\/more-people-being-tested-for-hendra\/","title":{"rendered":"More people being tested for Hendra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">More people are being tested for the Hendra virus after the rapidly spreading infection claimed a fifth horse in NSW, taking the national toll to 15.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The horse died at a property near Mullumbimby on the NSW north coast, the Department of Primary Industries confirmed on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Four other horses along with three cats and two dogs on the property will be assessed on the quarantined property.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A NSW health spokesman said three people had been exposed to the virus in the most recent incident in NSW.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;Despite the negligible exposure, the three people are having blood tests,&#8221; he told AAP.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;Fifteen (other) people previously identified as having potential contacts to the previous infected horses in NSW are now past the incubation period.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;Six people from this group have had precautionary blood tests to check for unrecognised infection.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/news.ninemsn.com.au\/national\/8278430\/fifth-nsw-horse-dies-from-hendra-virus\" target=\"_blank\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More people are being tested for the Hendra virus after the rapidly spreading infection claimed a fifth horse in NSW, taking the national toll to 15. The horse died at a property near Mullumbimby on the NSW north coast, the Department of Primary Industries confirmed on Thursday. Four other horses along with three cats and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disease-outbrake","category-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5026"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5028,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5026\/revisions\/5028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}