{"id":286,"date":"2006-06-13T16:30:01","date_gmt":"2006-06-13T11:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2006\/06\/13\/indian-programmer-blamed-for-measles-outbreak-in-boston\/"},"modified":"2006-06-13T16:34:34","modified_gmt":"2006-06-13T11:04:34","slug":"indian-programmer-blamed-for-measles-outbreak-in-boston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2006\/06\/13\/indian-programmer-blamed-for-measles-outbreak-in-boston\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian programmer blamed for measles outbreak in Boston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An <strong>Indian software programmer<\/strong> is at the <strong>centre of a Robin Cook novel-like scenario in Boston<\/strong>, where a measles outbreak has led to authorities distributing 23,000 doses of vaccine costing $400,000 (Rs1.8 crore) across the city. <\/p>\n<p>They have also ordered hundreds of people working in three buildings, including the city\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s tallest skyscraper <strong>where the programmer went to work<\/strong>, to stay home until they can prove they are not susceptible to the disease.<\/p>\n<p>The programmer, whose name has not been made public, flew in from India on April 26, and began showing <strong>symptoms of measles \u00e2\u20ac\u201dcough, fever and rash<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d on May 5. The disease soon spread to six more persons in the same building.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dnaindia.com\/report.asp?NewsID=1035172\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Indian software programmer is at the centre of a Robin Cook novel-like scenario in Boston, where a measles outbreak has led to authorities distributing 23,000 doses of vaccine costing $400,000 (Rs1.8 crore) across the city. They have also ordered hundreds of people working in three buildings, including the city\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s tallest skyscraper where the programmer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[8,3],"class_list":["post-286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-india","tag-internet","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}