{"id":7550,"date":"2024-09-03T19:40:52","date_gmt":"2024-09-04T00:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=7550"},"modified":"2024-09-03T19:40:56","modified_gmt":"2024-09-04T00:40:56","slug":"2-additional-cases-of-west-nile-virus-confirmed-in-massachusetts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/09\/03\/2-additional-cases-of-west-nile-virus-confirmed-in-massachusetts\/","title":{"rendered":"2 additional cases of West Nile virus confirmed in Massachusetts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcvb.com\/article\/massachusetts-west-nile-virus-cases-risk-update-sept-3-2024\/62047574\">WCVB<\/a> Massachusetts public health officials are raising the risk level for West Nile virus in nine cities and towns after reporting two additional human cases of the mosquito-borne disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Department of Public Health, one patient is a man in his 50s who was exposed in Suffolk County, and the other is a man in his 80s with exposure in southern Middlesex County. The two cases bring the total in Massachusetts to six this year. As a result, risk levels DPH officials are warning that the risk of the virus is now high in Arlington, Belmont, Chelsea, Malden, Medford, Melrose, Revere, Saugus and Winthrop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcvb.com\/article\/massachusetts-west-nile-virus-cases-risk-update-sept-3-2024\/62047574\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WCVB Massachusetts public health officials are raising the risk level for West Nile virus in nine cities and towns after reporting two additional human cases of the mosquito-borne disease. According to the Department of Public Health, one patient is a man in his 50s who was exposed in Suffolk County, and the other is a [&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-7550","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\/7550","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=7550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7551,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7550\/revisions\/7551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}