{"id":369919,"date":"2026-08-13T01:30:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T01:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/369919\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T01:30:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T01:30:13","slug":"dengue-cases-in-the-tampa-bay-area-rise-to-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/369919\/","title":{"rendered":"Dengue cases in the Tampa Bay area rise to 10"},"content":{"rendered":"

Confirmed locally acquired dengue fever cases in the Tampa Bay area has risen to 10, as the Florida Department of Health in Hillsborough County reported the eighth case today.<\/p>\n

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In addition, the Florida Department of Health in Pinellas County <\/a>reported two dengue local transmission in the Palm Harbor area earlier, bringing the total in the area to 10.<\/p>\n

Health officials and mosquito control in the two counties are coordinating surveillance and prevention efforts by using all available resources to minimize mosquito activity.<\/p>\n

\u2019Tis the Season for Ticks and Mosquitoes<\/a><\/p>\n

Locally acquired cases have also been reported in South Florida- Miami-Dade<\/a> and Palm Beach<\/a> counties.<\/p>\n

Dengue is a disease caused by a virus spread through mosquito bites. The disease can take up to 2 weeks to develop with illness generally lasting less than a week.<\/p>\n

Symptoms from dengue include fever, headache, nausea, vomiting, rash, muscle and joint pain, and minor bleeding.<\/p>\n

Dengue can become severe within a few hours. Severe dengue is a medical emergency, usually requiring hospitalization.<\/p>\n

In severe cases, health effects can include hemorrhage (uncontrolled bleeding), shock (seriously low blood pressure), organ failure, and death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Confirmed locally acquired dengue fever cases in the Tampa Bay area has risen to 10, as the Florida…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369920,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-369919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369919","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=369919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}