{"id":316080,"date":"2026-08-07T15:08:39","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T15:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/316080\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T15:08:39","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T15:08:39","slug":"west-nile-virus-detected-in-manhattan-heres-where","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/316080\/","title":{"rendered":"West Nile Virus Detected In Manhattan: Here&#8217;s Where"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Due to the uptick in positive tests, the city will be setting additional mosquito traps and expanding its efforts to spray areas with larvicide and adulticide. <\/p>\n<p>To keep New Yorkers safe from the virus, city officials recommend limiting time outside at dawn and dusk, keeping skin covered, and using bug spray.<\/p>\n<p> City officials also recommend repairing window and door screens, as well as emptying any standing water \u2014 in birdbaths, flower pots, and gutters \u2014 at least once a week. <\/p>\n<p>For questions, email Miranda.Levingston@Patch.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Due to the uptick in positive tests, the city will be setting additional mosquito traps and expanding its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316081,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-316080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}