{"id":23786,"date":"2020-10-14T15:15:48","date_gmt":"2020-10-14T06:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/oct\/14\/not-just-a-dog-bite-why-india-is-struggling-to-keep-rabies-at-bay"},"modified":"2020-10-14T15:15:48","modified_gmt":"2020-10-14T06:15:48","slug":"not-just-a-dog-bite-why-india-is-struggling-to-keep-rabies-at-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=23786","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Not just a dog bite\u2019: why India is struggling to keep rabies at bay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government is being urged to dispel myths and ensure drugs are available \u2013 and take responsibility for the millions of stray dogs<\/p>\n<p>By the time the patient, a young man, reached Dr Ramesh Masthi at a Bengaluru hospital, it was too late to save him. After being bitten by a pack of stray dogs as he went out to buy some milk, his family had applied a paste of green chillis, then lime juice and finally, when the wound looked gruesome, turmeric.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe came about a week after he was bitten. The wound was serious, and we couldn\u2019t save him. There is so much ignorance about dog bites and myths. A rabies shot in time would have saved him,\u201d Masthi says.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/oct\/14\/not-just-a-dog-bite-why-india-is-struggling-to-keep-rabies-at-bay\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government is being urged to dispel myths and ensure drugs are available \u2013 and take responsibility for the millions of stray dogsBy the time the patient, a young man, reached Dr Ramesh Masthi at a Bengaluru hospital, it was too late to save him. Af&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":589,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[586,265,868,59,566,346,62,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animal-welfare","category-animals","category-dogs","category-global-development","category-global-health","category-health","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/589"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23787,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23786\/revisions\/23787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}