{"id":588989,"date":"2026-09-03T16:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T16:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/588989\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T16:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T16:46:08","slug":"invasive-mosquitoes-breed-in-london-for-the-first-time-in-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/588989\/","title":{"rendered":"Invasive mosquitoes breed in London for the first time in the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph-styles__ParagraphStyled-sc-ffb5f5ba-0 fqhmpl\">UKHSA&#8217;s head of medical entomology, Dr Jolyon Medlock, said: &#8220;There is no evidence that these mosquitoes have caused human infections and importantly, to date, there is no evidence of the mosquitoes or larvae being detected in nearby public areas&#8221; while Dr C\u00e9sar L\u00f3pez-Camacho, from Nuffield Department of Medicine at the University of Oxford, said this was an &#8220;important finding&#8221; but not an occasion to be alarmed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UKHSA&#8217;s head of medical entomology, Dr Jolyon Medlock, said: &#8220;There is no evidence that these mosquitoes have caused&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":588990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[273,111,139,69,147],"class_list":["post-588989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/588990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}