{"id":7474,"date":"2024-08-27T21:03:13","date_gmt":"2024-08-28T02:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=7474"},"modified":"2024-08-27T21:03:18","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T02:03:18","slug":"fauci-contracted-west-nile-how-risky-are-mosquitoes-in-the-d-c-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/08\/27\/fauci-contracted-west-nile-how-risky-are-mosquitoes-in-the-d-c-region\/","title":{"rendered":"Fauci contracted West Nile. How risky are mosquitoes in the D.C. region?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/dc-md-va\/2024\/08\/27\/west-nile-virus-mosquito-risks\/\">Washington Post<\/a> Anthony S. Fauci, the former top U.S. infectious-disease expert, was hospitalized last month with the mosquito-borne&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2024\/08\/24\/fauci-west-nile-virus\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_2\">West Nile virus.<\/a>&nbsp;On Monday, Maryland announced its first confirmed case of the diseasethis year. And the biting insects seem to be everywhere in the Washington region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Attention on West Nile, the most common disease spread by mosquitoes, is high with more than three weeks of hot, humid D.C. summer still ahead of us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mosquitoes carry other diseases, such as&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2024\/08\/25\/massachusetts-rare-mosquito-virus\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_5\">eastern equine encephalitis<\/a>, which&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2024\/08\/27\/eee-new-hampshire-death\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">killed an adult in New Hampshire<\/a>&nbsp;this month and is seen rarely in our region \u2014 typically once every five to eight years. Locally, experts say, cases of mosquito-borne illness such as Zika, malaria and dengue fever are isolated and usually imported by people who&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wwwnc.cdc.gov\/travel\">traveled internationally.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The good news, experts say, is most people infected with West Nile never know it and there are ways to prevent bites besides hiding indoors until fall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/\u201cWe\u2019re not telling people not to go out,\u201d said Joy McFarlane Mills, a supervisory biologist at the D.C. Department of Health. &quot;Go out and enjoy yourself, but use ... prevention mechanisms as needed.\u201d\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"xZjet s  usXHhoPbIAiob\">xZjet s  usXHhoPbIAiob<\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Post Anthony S. Fauci, the former top U.S. infectious-disease expert, was hospitalized last month with the mosquito-borne&nbsp;West Nile virus.&nbsp;On Monday, Maryland announced its first confirmed case of the diseasethis year. And the biting insects seem to be everywhere in the Washington region. Attention on West Nile, the most common disease spread by mosquitoes, is [&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-7474","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\/7474","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=7474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7475,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7474\/revisions\/7475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}