{"id":10254,"date":"2025-09-10T12:45:01","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T17:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=10254"},"modified":"2025-09-10T12:45:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T17:45:04","slug":"vermont-confirms-states-1st-case-of-jamestown-canyon-virus-in-humans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/09\/10\/vermont-confirms-states-1st-case-of-jamestown-canyon-virus-in-humans\/","title":{"rendered":"Vermont confirms state\u2019s 1st case of Jamestown Canyon virus in humans\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vtdigger.org\/2025\/09\/09\/vermont-confirms-states-1st-case-of-jamestown-canyon-virus-in-humans\/\">VT Digger<\/a> The state advises protecting against mosquito bites as summer comes to a close. Vermont\u2019s Department of Health confirmed the state\u2019s first-known human case of the mosquito-borne Jamestown Canyon virus. The disease has relatively mild symptoms, especially for young people who do not have underlying health conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The state began&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthvermont.gov\/disease-control\/mosquito-borne-diseases\/mosquitoes-vermont\">monitoring mosquitoes for Jamestown Canyon Virus<\/a>&nbsp;this year, after it was found in nearby states. The monitoring showed insects in Rutland, Marshfield and Whitingham all carried the disease. This human case, which was confirmed in a Sept. 8 lab test in a Windsor County patient, further confirms the presence of the virus in Vermont, according to Natalie Kwit, the state\u2019s public health veterinarian.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VT Digger The state advises protecting against mosquito bites as summer comes to a close. Vermont\u2019s Department of Health confirmed the state\u2019s first-known human case of the mosquito-borne Jamestown Canyon virus. The disease has relatively mild symptoms, especially for young people who do not have underlying health conditions. The state began&nbsp;monitoring mosquitoes for Jamestown Canyon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mosquito-bourne-diseases"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10255,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10254\/revisions\/10255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}