{"id":25061,"date":"2013-08-13T14:22:39","date_gmt":"2013-08-13T19:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=25061"},"modified":"2013-08-13T14:22:39","modified_gmt":"2013-08-13T19:22:39","slug":"confirmed-n-d-west-nile-virus-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=25061","title":{"rendered":"Confirmed N.D. West Nile Virus Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2013 The North Dakota Department of Health has reported the state\u2019s first 2013 West Nile virus death.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 West Nile virus program manager Michelle Feist says the woman was older than 60 years old and lived in the southeastern part of the state. She did not have any underlying health conditions.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The state has seen 16 human cases so far this year.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Feist says the death should serve as a reminder of the seriousness of West Nile virus, especially to those older than 50 and those with other medical conditions.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 She says that North Dakotans should continue to take steps to protect themselves from mosquito bites to prevent the virus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2013 The North Dakota Department of Health has reported the state\u2019s first 2013 West Nile virus death. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 West Nile virus program manager Michelle Feist says the woman was older than 60 years old and lived in the southeastern part of the state. She did not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2423,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25061"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25070,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25061\/revisions\/25070"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}