{"id":6941,"date":"2024-07-02T18:15:54","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T23:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=6941"},"modified":"2024-07-02T18:15:58","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T23:15:58","slug":"health-officials-in-the-florida-keys-issue-a-dengue-fever-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/07\/02\/health-officials-in-the-florida-keys-issue-a-dengue-fever-alert\/","title":{"rendered":"Health officials in the Florida Keys issue a dengue fever alert"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/health\/health-news\/health-officials-florida-keys-issue-local-dengue-fever-alert-rcna159931\">NBC News<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A dengue fever alert has been issued in the Florida Keys following two confirmed cases of the mosquito-borne illness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The local warning comes a week after&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/latino\/cdc-warns-increased-dengue-fever-risk-us-rcna158851\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a national advisory<\/a>&nbsp;about the increased risk of dengue virus infections in the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even though most of the dengue cases reported in the States this year have been travel-related, the two cases that triggered the alert in the Florida Keys were locally acquired, according to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.islamorada.fl.us\/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=54\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">officials at the Florida Department of Health in Monroe County<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NBC News A dengue fever alert has been issued in the Florida Keys following two confirmed cases of the mosquito-borne illness. The local warning comes a week after&nbsp;the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a national advisory&nbsp;about the increased risk of dengue virus infections in the United States. Even though most of the dengue [&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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-headlines"],"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\/6941","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=6941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6942,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6941\/revisions\/6942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}