{"id":10467,"date":"2025-10-01T19:42:51","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T00:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=10467"},"modified":"2025-10-01T19:42:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T00:42:53","slug":"illinois-confirms-first-case-of-rare-tick-borne-powassan-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/10\/01\/illinois-confirms-first-case-of-rare-tick-borne-powassan-virus\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois Confirms First Case of Rare Tick-Borne Powassan Virus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.infectiousdiseaseadvisor.com\/news\/illinois-confirms-first-case-of-rare-tick-borne-powassan-virus\/\">Infectious Disease  Advisor<\/a> Illinois health officials are warning residents to be on alert after the state\u2019s first case of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/powassan\/about\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Powassan virus, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Powassan virus<\/a>&nbsp;was confirmed in a resident who became seriously ill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) hasn\u2019t determined whether the person was infected in Illinois, but officials are now testing ticks statewide for the virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWith warm weather still prevalent, tick-borne diseases remain a potential threat here in Illinois,\u201d&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/icjia.illinois.gov\/about\/biographies\/sameer-vohra\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Dr. Sameer Vohra, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dr. Sameer Vohra<\/a>, IDPH director, told&nbsp;<em>NBC Chicago<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s important for everyone to guard against tick bites and the serious illnesses they can cause,\u201d Vohra added. \u201cWe urge everyone to \u2018Fight the Bite\u2019 by reducing opportunities for exposures and repelling tick bites by wearing preventive clothing. If you have been in a wooded or grassy area where ticks are common and you begin to show symptoms like fever, fatigue or headache, see a health care provider immediately.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Infectious Disease Advisor Illinois health officials are warning residents to be on alert after the state\u2019s first case of&nbsp;Powassan virus&nbsp;was confirmed in a resident who became seriously ill. The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) hasn\u2019t determined whether the person was infected in Illinois, but officials are now testing ticks statewide for the virus. \u201cWith [&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":[71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tick-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\/10467","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=10467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10468,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10467\/revisions\/10468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}