{"id":3524,"date":"2010-06-30T02:23:36","date_gmt":"2010-06-29T19:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=3524"},"modified":"2010-06-30T02:23:36","modified_gmt":"2010-06-29T19:23:36","slug":"florida-health-agency-warns-against-mosquito-borne-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/industry\/florida-health-agency-warns-against-mosquito-borne-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida health agency warns against mosquito-borne disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">TAMPA &#8211; The Hillsborough\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www2.tbo.com\/topic\/k\/county-health-department\/\">County Health Department<\/a> issued a warning Friday about mosquito-borne illnesses after two horses in the county tested positive for Eastern equine encephalitis.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www2.tbo.com\/topic\/k\/rare-disease\/\">rare disease<\/a> is spread by infected mosquitoes. It can cause\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www2.tbo.com\/topic\/k\/brain-inflammation\/\">brain inflammation<\/a> and is largely untreatable. Severe cases in humans begin with a sudden headache, high fever, chills and vomiting. The illness may lead to disorientation, seizures and coma.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The health department advises residents to take precautions such as using\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www2.tbo.com\/topic\/k\/insect-repellent\/\">insect repellent<\/a> containing DEET, picaridin,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www2.tbo.com\/topic\/k\/ir3535\/\">IR3535<\/a> or\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www2.tbo.com\/topic\/k\/oil-of-lemon-eucalyptus\/\">oil of lemon eucalyptus<\/a> on exposed skin and on clothing.<a href=\"http:\/\/www2.tbo.com\/content\/2010\/jun\/26\/na-mosquito-borne-illness-detected\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA &#8211; The Hillsborough\u00a0County Health Department issued a warning Friday about mosquito-borne illnesses after two horses in the county tested positive for Eastern equine encephalitis. The\u00a0rare disease is spread by infected mosquitoes. It can cause\u00a0brain inflammation and is largely untreatable. Severe cases in humans begin with a sudden headache, high fever, chills and vomiting. The [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disease-outbrake","category-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3524","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=3524"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3526,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3524\/revisions\/3526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}