{"id":236984,"date":"2025-09-18T18:33:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T18:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/236984\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T18:33:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T18:33:09","slug":"ny-health-officials-report-local-resident-infected-with-west-nile-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/236984\/","title":{"rendered":"NY health officials report local resident infected with West Nile virus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">MALONE, Vt. (WCAX) &#8211; A human case of West Nile virus has been confirmed in Franklin County, New York.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Health officials say it is the first human case confirmed in the area since the early 2000s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Symptoms include fever, headache, body aches, joint pain, fatigue, swollen lymph nodes, and rash. Experts say to stay safe, avoid mosquitoes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The local health department is offering free mosquito dunks and insect repellent in the front lobby of the courthouse located at 355 West Main Street in Malone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Vermont health officials in July reported mosquitoes in St. Albans tested positive for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthvermont.gov\/disease-control\/mosquito-borne-diseases\/west-nile-virus\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.healthvermont.gov\/disease-control\/mosquito-borne-diseases\/west-nile-virus\" target=\"_blank\">West Nile<\/a>, but said there had been no reported infections. <\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WCAX. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MALONE, Vt. (WCAX) &#8211; A human case of West Nile virus has been confirmed in Franklin County, New&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":236985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,9524,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,47139,127198],"class_list":{"0":"post-236984","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-franklin-county","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-newyork","13":"tag-newyorkcity","14":"tag-ny","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa","22":"tag-wcax","23":"tag-west-nile"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115226739017964821","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}