{"id":3512,"date":"2010-06-24T22:40:59","date_gmt":"2010-06-24T15:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=3512"},"modified":"2010-06-24T22:40:59","modified_gmt":"2010-06-24T15:40:59","slug":"2-florida-chickens-test-positive-for-equine-encephalitis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/industry\/2-florida-chickens-test-positive-for-equine-encephalitis\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Florida chickens test positive for equine encephalitis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Summer&#8217;s rainy season means mosquitoes are back with a vengeance, and so mosquito-born diseases are returning, too.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Martin County Health Department warned Tuesday that two sentinel chickens from its early warning flock have tested positive for Eastern equine encephalitis, a viral disease that can be fatal to horses, and on rare occasions sickens humans, too.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It&#8217;s the first time that eastern equine encephalitis has been seen in Martin County in 30 years, the Martin County Health Department said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Several mosquito-born germs that are dangerous to humans use birds as hosts, and so health agencies keep outdoor chicken flocks, taking blood samples as a way to track those diseases. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.palmbeachpost.com\/news\/sudden-appearance-of-equine-encephalitis-has-health-officials-762311.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summer&#8217;s rainy season means mosquitoes are back with a vengeance, and so mosquito-born diseases are returning, too. The Martin County Health Department warned Tuesday that two sentinel chickens from its early warning flock have tested positive for Eastern equine encephalitis, a viral disease that can be fatal to horses, and on rare occasions sickens humans, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,14,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disease-outbrake","category-industry","category-veterinary-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3513,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3512\/revisions\/3513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}