{"id":390732,"date":"2026-07-08T15:55:58","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T15:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/390732\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T15:55:58","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T15:55:58","slug":"kern-county-public-health-works-to-raise-awareness-about-valley-fever-and-west-nile-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/390732\/","title":{"rendered":"Kern County Public Health works to raise awareness about Valley Fever and West Nile Virus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX)  \u2014 Kern County Public Health&#8217;s &#8220;Thrive Like a Poppy&#8221; campaign is working to raise awareness about the health conditions that impact our community. <\/p>\n<p>KCPH is currently focusing on issues like Valley fever and West Nile Virus as the summer months usually see those diseases spread more rapidly.<\/p>\n<p>Director of Public Health Brynn Carrigan joined ARC Bakersfield to break down what the community needs to know about the heat risks they may be facing.<\/p>\n<p>More information about the &#8220;Thrive Like a Poppy&#8221; campaign can be found at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kernpublichealth.com\/healthy-community\/annual-campaigns\/thrive-like-a-poppy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">kernpublichealth.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Kern County Public Health&#8217;s &#8220;Thrive Like a Poppy&#8221; campaign is working to raise awareness&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390733,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-390732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}