We’re in a rainy pattern which can lead to a mosquito infestation. <\/p>\n
The Florida Department of Health is reminding residents to take steps to avoid being bitten by mosquitoes after West Nile virus has been confirmed in Martin County. <\/p>\n
Health officials say several sentinel chickens have tested positive for the mosquito-borne illness that can cause fever, chills. sweats, headaches and intestinal issues. <\/p>\n
Homeowners are urged to drain any standing water on their property and to wear mosquito repellent while outdoors in the hours of dusk to dawn. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We’re in a rainy pattern which can lead to a mosquito infestation. The Florida Department of Health is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418270,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[23644,749,23647,23645,171,173,172,23646,862,23643,23642,23641],"class_list":["post-418269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-am-tampa-bay","tag-breaking-news","tag-fox-news-radio","tag-jack-harris","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news","tag-sean-hannity","tag-tampa-bay-lightning","tag-tampa-bay-news","tag-tampa-bay-traffic","tag-tampa-bay-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418269","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=418269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}