{"id":406497,"date":"2026-09-21T20:04:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T20:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/406497\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T20:04:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T20:04:11","slug":"fls-1st-dengue-fever-death-confirmed-by-health-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/406497\/","title":{"rendered":"FL&#8217;s 1st Dengue Fever Death Confirmed By Health Officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first locally acquired dengue case this year, reported in Hillsborough, was recorded in the July 19-25 report.<\/p>\n<p>Health department data also show that there have been 186 travel-associated dengue cases recorded in the state since the start of the year.<\/p>\n<p>The report doesn\u2019t break down which county recorded these travel-associated cases. Rather, the data lists the country of exposure.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, people who traveled to Cuba accounted for 148 of the travel-associated dengue cases.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cResidents throughout the state should take precautions from mosquito-borne illnesses by appropriately applying insect repellent, avoiding areas with high mosquito populations, and wearing long pants and shirts when possible \u2014 especially during sunrise and sunset when mosquitoes are most active,\u201d Maher told Patch in a previous email. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first locally acquired dengue case this year, reported in Hillsborough, was recorded in the July 19-25 report.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406498,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-406497","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\/406497","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=406497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}