{"id":359587,"date":"2026-08-01T02:21:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T02:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/359587\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T02:21:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T02:21:18","slug":"health-officials-confirm-case-of-dengue-fever-in-miami-dade-wsvn-7news-miami-news-weather-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/359587\/","title":{"rendered":"Health officials confirm case of dengue fever in Miami-Dade &#8211; WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(WSVN) &#8211; The Florida Department of Health in Miami-Dade issued an advisory after confirming a case of dengue fever in South Florida.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the advisory, officials confirmed a locally-acquired case of dengue and health officials have begun coordinating surveillance, prevention and control efforts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dengue is a fever that can present as a flu-like illness with severe muscle aches and joint pain, fever and sometimes a rash. Symptoms of dengue often appear within 14 days of being bitten by an infected mosquito.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Those symptoms usually last from four days to a week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dengue fever is not considered contagious, and is rarely fatal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The best ways to lower your risk to exposure is by using insect repellants and clear out any standing water where mosquitos often congregate and breed.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Sunbeam Television Corp. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p>\tJoin our Newsletter for the latest news right to your inbox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(WSVN) &#8211; The Florida Department of Health in Miami-Dade issued an advisory after confirming a case of dengue&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-359587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}