{"id":24649,"date":"2019-08-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2019\/08\/30\/massachusetts-communities-at-critical-risk-for-mosquito-borne-virus\/"},"modified":"2019-09-03T16:06:10","modified_gmt":"2019-09-03T16:06:10","slug":"massachusetts-communities-at-critical-risk-for-mosquito-borne-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2019\/08\/30\/massachusetts-communities-at-critical-risk-for-mosquito-borne-virus\/","title":{"rendered":"Massachusetts Communities at &#8216;Critical Risk&#8217; for Mosquito-Borne Virus"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Dozens of communities at high or moderate risk for Eastern equine encephalitis<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>FRIDAY, Aug. 30, 2019 (HealthDay News) &#8212; There is a &#8220;critical risk&#8221; for a dangerous mosquito-transmitted virus in 28 Massachusetts communities, the state health department warns.<\/p>\n<p>The health department also said that 37 more communities are at high risk and another 126 are at moderate risk for Eastern equine encephalitis, <i>CNN<\/i> reported. The virus has been confirmed in four people this year, detected in seven horses, and found in 366 mosquito samples, state health authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>The virus appears occasionally in Massachusetts. Recent outbreaks in 2004 to 2006 and 2010 to 2012 resulted in illness in 22 people, <i>CNN<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As we head into the Labor Day weekend and the month of September people should not forget to bring and use an EPA-approved mosquito repellent for any outdoor activities,&#8221; Monica Bharel, M.D., M.P.H., the state public health commissioner, said in a news release. &#8220;The peak time for transmission of mosquito-borne illness extends through September here in Massachusetts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/08\/29\/health\/mosquito-borne-virus-massachusetts\/index.html\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>CNN<\/i> Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mass.gov\/news\/state-public-health-officials-announce-four-confirmed-cases-of-eee-in-horses\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">More Information<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dozens of communities at high or moderate risk for Eastern equine encephalitis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":24712,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-24649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}