{"id":590353,"date":"2026-08-20T08:34:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T08:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/590353\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T08:34:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T08:34:25","slug":"mosquitoes-infected-with-west-nile-virus-caught-in-several-areas-across-israel-inclu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/590353\/","title":{"rendered":"Mosquitoes infected with West Nile virus caught in several areas across Israel, inclu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Environmental Protection and the Ministry of Health reported the capture of mosquitoes infected with West Nile virus in the Petah Tikva area, the Ben Gurion Airport area, Kafr Qasim, Kafr Bara and in the Brenner and Central Arava regional councils. The Ministry of Health reported that since the start of the West Nile virus activity season until today, 17 patients have been diagnosed, including one person who died. Most of the patients suffered from symptoms typical of the disease, including fever, rash and changes in consciousness. The ministry stated that the public should dry and drain standing water sources, such as buckets and plant pot saucers, use mosquito repellent containing an active ingredient, operate a fan when staying at home, in gardens and in open spaces and report mosquito nuisances to the local authority&#8217;s 106 hotline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ministry of Environmental Protection and the Ministry of Health reported the capture of mosquitoes infected with West&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-590353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}