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Published:\u00a0October 12, 2026 at 6:15 PM<\/p>\n
Two more locally acquired cases of dengue fever have been confirmed in Orange County, bringing the county\u2019s total to five, according to the Florida Department of Health.<\/p>\n
Health officials said both new cases are in the Apopka area. Two previous cases were also reported in the Apopka area, while another was reported in Pine Hills.<\/p>\n
Orange County Mosquito Control said the two new cases are close to previous local cases and officials believe dengue appears to be spreading in that area.<\/p>\n
The county is now preparing to use aerial spraying in addition to work already underway on the ground.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWS Published:\u00a0October 12, 2026 at 6:15 PM Two more locally acquired cases of dengue fever have been confirmed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":426224,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[167620,139,141,140],"class_list":["post-426223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-more-dengue-fever-cases-appear-in-orlando-area-what-officials-plan-to-do","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426223","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=426223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}