{"id":47222,"date":"2022-08-08T07:03:53","date_gmt":"2022-08-07T22:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/08\/new-hope-for-children-at-risk-of-new-zealands-most-iniquitous-disease"},"modified":"2022-08-08T07:03:53","modified_gmt":"2022-08-07T22:03:53","slug":"new-hope-for-children-at-risk-of-new-zealands-most-iniquitous-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=47222","title":{"rendered":"New hope for children at risk of New Zealand\u2019s most iniquitous disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Potentially deadly, rheumatic fever has been eradicated in most of the developed world. Fresh research may help New Zealand finally follow suit<\/p>\n<p>Nathanial Harland was four years old when his daycare teachers noticed the usually playful boy was lethargic and alone in a corner. That day a doctor listened to the child\u2019s chest and told his family to take Nathaniel straight to hospital \u2013 he had a heart murmur.<\/p>\n<p>Further testing showed his heart had been damaged from an earlier, undiagnosed bout of rheumatic fever, a serious but entirely preventable disease that has been all but wiped out in most developed countries but which is still present in New Zealand <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2019\/oct\/12\/rheumatic-heart-disease-in-northern-territory-a-bloody-health-emergency\">and Australia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/08\/new-hope-for-children-at-risk-of-new-zealands-most-iniquitous-disease\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Potentially deadly, rheumatic fever has been eradicated in most of the developed world. Fresh research may help New Zealand finally follow suitNathanial Harland was four years old when his daycare teachers noticed the usually playful boy was lethargic &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2286,"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":[41,914,512,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-infectious-diseases","category-medical-research","category-new-zealand"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47222","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\/2286"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47223,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47222\/revisions\/47223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}