{"id":20663,"date":"2020-02-23T10:07:20","date_gmt":"2020-02-23T04:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=20663"},"modified":"2020-02-23T10:07:20","modified_gmt":"2020-02-23T04:37:20","slug":"every-fever-and-cough-is-not-coronavirus-dak-to-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=20663","title":{"rendered":"Every fever and cough is not coronavirus: DAK To People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>SRINAGAR \u2013 \u201cPeople should not mistake flu illness with coronavirus as both have similar symptoms which is fever and cough,\u201d said Doc\u00adtors Association Kashmir (DAK) on Saturday in a com\u00admuniqu\u00e9.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cEvery fever and cough is not coronavirus,\u201d said DAK President Dr Nisar ul Hassan.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cA suspect case of new coronavirus is one who has respiratory symptoms and has a history of travel to the affected area in the past 14 days or the one who has been in close contact with a confirmed case of coronavi\u00adrus infection within the last 14 days,\u201d he said.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Dr Nisar said despite simi\u00adlar symptoms of coronavirus to flu, there are some impor\u00adtant differences.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Quoting a study pub\u00adlished in The Lancet, he said coronavirus cases do not exhibit upper respiratory tract symptoms like runny nose,sore throat and sneez\u00ading which are seen in most of flu cases.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Dr Nisar said the new coronavirus,like flu spreads mostly from person to per\u00adson by respiratory droplets, but new research suggests coronavirus can also spread through feces and this could be the reason for the rapid spread of the virus.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWhile this year\u2019s flu vi\u00adrus is hitting kids especially hard, coronavirus has large\u00adly spared this vulnerable group,\u201d he added.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cCoronavirus, also called COVID-19 is a novel (new) vi\u00adrus that originated in Wuhan city of China has killed 2,362 people and infected 77,925 people so far.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Men represent the majority of novel coronavirus cases, and they seem to die more often from this deadly infec\u00adtion.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Research has found that the death rate among men was 2.8% compared to 1.7% among women.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Majority of the patients who died of novel coronavirus were older men with underly\u00ading health problems like dia\u00adbetes, hypertension and heart disease,\u201d said Dr Nisar.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SRINAGAR \u2013 \u201cPeople should not mistake flu illness with coronavirus as both have similar symptoms which is fever and cough,\u201d said Doc\u00adtors Association Kashmir (DAK) on Saturday in a com\u00admuniqu\u00e9. \u201cEvery fever and cough is not coronavirus,\u201d said DAK President Dr Nisar ul Hassan. \u201cA suspect case of new coronavirus is one who has respiratory [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20762,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}