{"id":4372,"date":"2025-10-16T03:11:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T03:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/4372\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T03:11:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T03:11:10","slug":"first-case-of-chikungunya-virus-confirmed-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/4372\/","title":{"rendered":"First case of Chikungunya virus confirmed in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALBANY, N.Y. \u2014 New York State health officials have confirmed the first locally acquired case of the Chikungunya virus. <\/p>\n<p>The<a href=\"https:\/\/www.health.ny.gov\/press\/releases\/2025\/2025-10-14_chikungunya.htm\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.health.ny.gov\/press\/releases\/2025\/2025-10-14_chikungunya.htm\" class=\"themeColorForLinks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> mosquito-borne illness <\/a>was detected in a person on Long Island, who began experiencing symptoms in August following a trip outside the region. <\/p>\n<p>Symptoms include fever and joint pain, headache, muscle pain, joint swelling or rash. The illness is rarely fatal and most patients recover within a week.<\/p>\n<p>The mosquito-borne disease is typically found in tropical regions. The individual did not travel to a region where the virus is typically found.<\/p>\n<p>It remains unclear how the virus was contracted. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALBANY, N.Y. \u2014 New York State health officials have confirmed the first locally acquired case of the Chikungunya&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4373,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3797,4517,4518,776,4515,9,11,10,4516,3731],"class_list":{"0":"post-4372","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-chikungunya","9":"tag-health-officials","10":"tag-locally-acquired","11":"tag-long-island","12":"tag-mosquito-borne","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-headlines","15":"tag-new-york-news","16":"tag-symptoms","17":"tag-virus"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4372","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=4372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}