{"id":3531,"date":"2010-06-30T02:33:15","date_gmt":"2010-06-29T19:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=3531"},"modified":"2010-06-30T02:33:15","modified_gmt":"2010-06-29T19:33:15","slug":"florida-reports-16-cases-of-equine-encephalitis-so-far-in-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/industry\/florida-reports-16-cases-of-equine-encephalitis-so-far-in-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida reports 16 cases of equine encephalitis so far in 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Health officials are urging residents and horse owners to take precautions against mosquito-borne diseases as cases increase across the state.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">According to a report released today, 16 cases of Eastern equine encephalitis have been confirmed in Florida\u00a0<a id=\"T50023005\" title=\"Horse (animal)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/topic\/science-technology\/science\/zoology\/horse-%28animal%29-T50023005.topic\">horses<\/a> this year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Of those, Osceola had three and there was one each in Polk, Volusia, Marion and Lake counties.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">There are no human cases in Florida. But so-called sentinel chickens \u2013 animals used to measure the spread of mosquito-borne diseases in the environment \u2013 have tested positive for Eastern equine encephalitis in Central Florida.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The tests and other factors prompted the Orange County Health Department to issue a reminder about mosquito-borne diseases Monday. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/news\/local\/breakingnews\/os-florida-eastern-equine-encephaliti20100628,0,5072554.story\" target=\"_blank\">read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health officials are urging residents and horse owners to take precautions against mosquito-borne diseases as cases increase across the state. According to a report released today, 16 cases of Eastern equine encephalitis have been confirmed in Florida\u00a0horses this year. Of those, Osceola had three and there was one each in Polk, Volusia, Marion and Lake [&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-3531","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\/3531","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=3531"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3533,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3531\/revisions\/3533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}