{"id":23577,"date":"2013-07-24T16:06:11","date_gmt":"2013-07-24T21:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=23577"},"modified":"2013-07-24T16:06:11","modified_gmt":"2013-07-24T21:06:11","slug":"first-west-nile-virus-human-case-confirmed-n-d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=23577","title":{"rendered":"First West Nile Virus Human Case Confirmed, N.D."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP\u00a0 Jul 24, 2013) &#8211; State health officials have confirmed the first human case of West Nile in North Dakota.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The patient is a female in her 30s who resides in Grant County. She was not hospitalized for the illness.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Alicia Lepp, an epidemiologist with the North Dakota Department of Health, says the case is a reminder that people should protect themselves from mosquito bites. West Nile is spread through mosquitoes.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Symptoms of West Nile include fever, headache, body aches and rash.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In 2012, there were 89 human cases of West Nile virus reported in North Dakota.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP\u00a0 Jul 24, 2013) &#8211; State health officials have confirmed the first human case of West Nile in North Dakota. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The patient is a female in her 30s who resides in Grant County. She was not hospitalized for the illness. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Alicia Lepp, an epidemiologist [&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-23577","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\/23577","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=23577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23578,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23577\/revisions\/23578"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}