{"id":413086,"date":"2026-09-28T20:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T20:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/413086\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T20:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T20:14:08","slug":"florida-faces-unprecedented-dengue-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/413086\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida faces unprecedented dengue threat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"sub-headline watch-truncate\" data-v-7521dc01=\"\">Several Florida counties have declared states of emergency to ramp up mosquito control efforts in response to a surge in locally acquired dengue fever cases, which health officials describe as a &#8220;wildly unusual&#8221; spike for the region.\u00a0 Dr. Nicole Iovine, Chief Epidemiologist and Infectious Disease Expert at UF Health, joined FOX 35&#8217;s Garrett Wymer live over Zoom to break down the developments.<\/p>\n<p>Posted\u00a0September 28, 2026 3:17pm EDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Several Florida counties have declared states of emergency to ramp up mosquito control efforts in response to a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413087,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,141,140],"class_list":["post-413086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413086","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=413086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}