{"id":125327,"date":"2017-07-18T10:04:40","date_gmt":"2017-07-18T15:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=125327"},"modified":"2017-07-18T14:33:26","modified_gmt":"2017-07-18T19:33:26","slug":"1st-human-cases-of-west-nile-virus-for-2017-reported","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=125327","title":{"rendered":"1st human cases of West Nile Virus for 2017 reported"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Mosquito.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-125339\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Mosquito-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Mosquito-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Mosquito-260x175.jpg 260w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Mosquito.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Bismarck\u00a0 (CSi)\u00a0 The North Dakota Department of Health\u00a0 has confirmed the first human cases of West Nile virus\u00a0 disease for the season.<\/p>\n<p>The two cases reside in <strong>LaMoure and Barnes Counties<\/strong> and were not hospitalized for their illnesses.<\/p>\n<p>In 2016, the State Health Department reported that\u00a0 85 people had West Nile virus. Of those, 28 were hospitalized and two died. West Nile virus was also confirmed in five horses, one squirrel and six birds.<\/p>\n<p>So far this year,\u00a0 three birds from Grand Forks County have tested positive for\u00a0 the virus.<\/p>\n<p>To help avoid contracting the virus, state and local health officials urge people to protect themselves from mosquito bites, <span id=\"_oneup\">and get rid of any stagnant water around their homes. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"_oneup\">Symptoms of West Nile include fever, headache, body aches and rash.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bismarck\u00a0 (CSi)\u00a0 The North Dakota Department of Health\u00a0 has confirmed the first human cases of West Nile virus\u00a0 disease for the season. The two cases reside in LaMoure and Barnes Counties and were not hospitalized for their illnesses. In 2016, the State Health Department reported that\u00a0 85 people had West [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":125339,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=125327"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125357,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125327\/revisions\/125357"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/125339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}